This week’s Hyperlinked Library module covers a variety of differing environments and issues in the modern information science landscape, in a “choose your own adventure” learning style. One of the topics under examination was censorship and book banning in libraries. In my previous reflection blog post, I discussed librarian’s responses to book banning efforts…

  In our module on hyperlinked communities, we have examined themes and issues emerging in today’s libraries: technological tools and the digital divide, unique and alternative community-based services, and efforts to improve equity, diversity, and inclusivity in our spaces, programs, and collections. In exploring the latter, one article by Kelly Jensen, titled “Libraries Resist,” provides…

  Introduction: The Library is Everyone As access to digital technology and information continues to grow, the library is increasingly more than just a building, a collection, or an institution–it is a community. Indeed, as Michael Stephens’ hyperlinked library model asserts, “the library is everywhere,” (2016, p. 2), and with participatory services and community-based practices,…

Hi everyone, My name is Colin McLeod (he/him), and I’m writing to you from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I work at a university library here in Ottawa in the Access Services department, primarily performing course reserves and interlibrary loan duties. I love working in an academic library environment — working alongside students as they strive to…