Dear Colleagues, we were privileged to host Emily Drabinski, ALA 2023-24 president, last month for a talk at the University of Michigan School of Information. We had great attendance in person and online, but in the hopes of sharing with those who weren't able to attend or anyone who wants to revisit the talk, I'm sharing a Youtube link to the recorded version of Drabinski's talk. Please find the link and information below:

Graphic advertising talk of Emily Drabinski at University of Michigan School of Information, February 6, 2PM, Ann Arbor MI

In February 2024, the Archives, Records and digital Curation (ARC) research group at the U-M School of Information hosted a Data, Archives, and Information in Society (DAIS) Seminar with Professor Emily Drabinski. Generous support provided by the Carnegie Fund and the William W. Bishop Lectureship Fund.

Emily Drabinski is Associate Professor in the Queens (N.Y.) College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She serves as 2023-2024 President of the American Library Association.

Seminar Title: What's Critical About Critical Librarianship?

Abstract: Critical librarianship interrogates the past, present, and future of normative library systems, asking both how they came to be as they are and how they might be made different. Whose ways of knowing are embedded in our cataloging and classification schemes? What stories do our collections tell about what matters in the world? This seminar will address these questions in the context of the current spate of attacks on libraries and librarians across the country. How can #CritLib help us win the world we want?

View the recorded talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO8I4h1zSes

Drabinski's related paper on the topic is here: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/537/

Jesse A. Johnston

Clinical Assistant Professor

University of Michigan School of Information

email: jajohnst@umich.edu

voicemail: (734) 764-2107

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