“ Pseudo-productivity: The use of visible activity as the primary means of approximating actual productive effort. ” - Cal Newport Knowledge...

The Gap and the Gain is a simple and effective approach to reframing personal growth more positively while emphasizing how an individual sh...

Call for Book Chapters Global Perspectives on Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonial Library Management Practices Editors Allan Cho, University of Br...

Join us for an enlightening and inspiring panel discussion featuring esteemed librarians from the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Netw...

During my 16-year career as a librarian, I have frequently been passed over for promotions and opportunities, earned considerably less than ...

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...