Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2023

Publication Title

Forging the Future: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2023 Conference

First Page

23

Last Page

28

Publisher

Association of College and Research Libraries

City

Chicago

Editor(s)

Dawn M. Mueller

Keywords

higher education, leadership, management, gender, feminist, critical management studies

Abstract

Gender and whiteness structure library work in ways that continue to lack sustained critical attention, particularly in the research literature on library leadership and management. In 2020 just over 83% of librarians identified as women and as white, non-Hispanic. And 78.6% of library technicians and assistants identified as white, non-Hispanic. These demographics make librarians a slightly less diverse workforce than other professionals in educational jobs. Despite being a female-intensive and overwhelmingly white profession, the scholarship on leadership and management published in mainstream library and information science journals (LIS) rarely employs explicitly feminist frameworks or perspectives. By using critical feminist analyses one can address and redress practices and principles in LIS work that have maintained white, cis-heteropatriarchal, middle-class social norms

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The ACRL 2023 Conference Proceedings are available at https://www.ala.org/acrl/conferences/acrl2023/papers and the copy of this paper is available at https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/acrl/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2023/FisforFeminism.pdf (PDF).

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