2024 LiterASIAN Festival group photo LiterASIAN Festival just wrapped up.  More than fifteen years ago, LiterASIAN was a dream when a few o...

“Not All Staying is the Same: Unpacking Retention and Turnover in Academic Libraries” by Samantha Guss, Sojourna Cunningham and Jennifer St...

As I search for my family’s past, I've run into many hurdles.  Genealogy is difficult work, particularly for racialized and historically...

This is a wonderful presentation by the scholar Fobazi Ettar  as pa rt of the NASIG 2021 Conference. I cherish Ettar's work and a...

Juicero, circa 2013 Though Julia Glassman is no longer a librarian, her brilliant article,  The Innovation Fetish and Slow Librarianship  co...

As part of the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Network (ViMLoC) , I’ve participated in its mentorship program and have met many talent...

I've been fortunate to collaborate with Silvia Vong (University of Toronto iSchool) and Elaina Norlin (Association of Southeastern Resea...

I'm really trying to learn as much as I can about self-care and self-compassion which is integral to healing.   I've been focusing a...

“ Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise ” – Victor Hugo Since the pandemic, I had been living life as if everything was norm...

Naoko Shibusawa is a 20th-century U.S. cultural historian who studies U.S. imperialism and political culture with an interest in the ideas a...

It was such a pleasure to moderate a session featuring my friend and role model librarian, Silvia Vong.   Silvia and I are conducting a rese...

During my sabbatical, I’ve been conducting research on EDI initiatives, in addition to completing my certificate in the EDI Certificate prog...

I learned about this book from the EDI Scholar-in-Residence, Nneka Allen , who introduced the concept of rest to the audience.   What a life...

It's been a few years of hard work and many fruitful research discussions with my research partner, Sarah Zhang, and the fruits of our l...

Today is Jim Wong-Chu’s birthday and he would’ve been 74 years old. It’s been five years since the passing of my friend and I dearly miss h...