Libraries Staff Publications
This collection contains publications of staff at the University of Alberta Libraries.
Items in this Collection
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2021-04-29
Recent controversies in Canadian librarianship—the Toronto Public Library room rental to a "gender-critical feminist" group and the institution of “airport-style” security at the Winnipeg Public Library—have exposed divisions within the profession. This article attempts to untangle the...
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Librarians, Hackerspaces and Participating in Open-Source Projects
2013-10-01
Presentation for Netspeed 2013, Calgary Alberta, October 24/25 2013.
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2018-03-27
This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within the profession are due to material changes in the organization of production and labour relations. These changes are part of a transition from one “regime of accumulation” (industrial, Fordist,...
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Proxying the Data Body: Artificial Intelligence, Federated Identity, and Machinic Subjection
Download2020-08-06
Academic libraries have recently seen a shift from self-management of user-authentication of licensed resources themselves, to cloud-based implementations of "federated identity" technologies. Such technologies aim to solve the problems of fragile access to licensed resources while also better...
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The Limits of Recognition: Culture and Historical Necessity in the Work of Rawls and Taylor
Download2020-10-30
Canadian political philosophy – particularly the work by Charles Taylor, James Tully, andWill Kymlicka – can be read against the changing landscape of Canadian constitutional and social history. In this paper, I will trace the genealogy of Taylor’s politics of recognition from Rawls’ Theory of...