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Grinding the Gears: Academic Librarians and Civic Responsibility

With Lisa Sloniowski and Patti Ryan of York University, spoke at the The 2013 LACUNY Institute: Libraries, Information, and the Right to the City on  April 5, 2013, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York.

Grinding the Gears: Academic Librarians and Civic Responsibility
Corporate encroachments are transforming universities into edu-factories which are designed to produce servants of the state rather than engaged citizens. Academic librarians have a duty to resist the machineries of the institution. This panel will survey the revolutionary potential inherent in the open source movement, feminist porn collections, and critical information literacy.

The full paper was published in a special issue of Urban Library Journal.

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