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'What is critical about critical librarianship?' is an excellent article by the wonderful @edrabinski discussing critical librarianship and the embeddedness of libraries within structures of power cambridge.org/core/journals/art-libraries-journal/article/what-is-critical-about-critical-librarianship/168F3F60B51E883C29E70596078C100E
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"Critical librarianship must grapple concretely and directly with the dynamics of white supremacy... We need to be serious with ourselves about why librarians consistently fail to hire people who do not look and act like them."
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…in reply to @SimonXIX
"Librarianship, at its beating heart, is about the production and reproduction of structures and systems. These systems include things like... technologies like the ILS and the OPAC..." This very much tallies with mine and @preater's work on critical systems librarianship.
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