Heterodoxy in the Stacks
HxL Substack, S. Anderson, Michael Dudley, Craig Gibson, Caroline Nappo, Kathleen McCook, Robert Jensen, Katelyn Golsby, Luc Lelievre, Chris YounkinIntellectual freedom, library neutrality, and libraries in democracy
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Canadian academic librarian at the University of Winnipeg; Master's degrees in Library and Information Studies and in City Planning.
Professional library lover.
Writes Substack, "Ebla to E-Books: The Preservation and Annihilation of Memory. " Teaches "History of Books & Libraries" - School of Information, University of South Florida. (my views do not reflect those of USF )
Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin and a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center.
Greetings from Canada! My background may be very similar to anyone else's. I grew up in poverty. Since my beginnings, I have only been a bookstore rat. I read relentlessly. Regards, Luc
Chris Younkin is Scholarly Communication Librarian at a university in Utah. His library career began in 2014 at a public library in Ohio before moving into instruction at universities in Ohio and Utah. The shift to schol comm just kinda happened.
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