An integrated understanding of librarian professional identity

CM Pierson, A Goulding… - … Knowledge, Memory and …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review literature on librarian professional identity to
develop a more integrated understanding of this topic. Design/methodology/approach …

Just-in-time or just-in-case? Time, learning analytics, and the academic library

KP Nicholson, N Pagowsky, M Seale - Library Trends, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
In this essay, we explore the timescapes of library learning analytics. We contend that just-in-
time strategies, a feature of late capital modes of production, New Public Management, and …

" Being in Time": New Public Management, Academic Librarians, and the Temporal Labor of Pink-Collar Public Service Work

KP Nicholson - Library Trends, 2019 - muse.jhu.edu
Time is a site of power, one that enacts particular subjectivities and relationships. In the
workplace, time enables and constrains performance, attitudes, and behaviors. In this …

Time and temporality in library and information science

J Haider, V Johansson, B Hammarfelt - Journal of Documentation, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The article introduces selected theoretical approaches to time and temporality
relevant to the field of library and information science, and it briefly introduces the papers …

Spatial thinking, gender and immaterial affective labour in the post-Fordist academic library

KP Nicholson - Journal of Documentation, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use spatial thinking (space-time) as a lens through
which to examine the ways in which the socio-economic conditions and values of the post …

The theory of mitigating risk: Information literacy and language-learning in transition

A Hicks - 2018 - diva-portal.org
This qualitative study explores the information literacy practices of students who were
learning a language overseas as part of their undergraduate degree. Constructivist …

On the space/time of information literacy, higher education, and the global knowledge economy

K Nicholson - Journal of Critical Library and Information …, 2019 - journals.litwinbooks.com
Local sites and practices of information work become embroiled in the larger imperatives
and logics of the global knowledge economy through social, technological, and spatial …

Including the voices of librarians of color in reference and information services research

A VanScoy, K Bright - Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2017 - JSTOR
Librarians of color make up a small proportion of information professionals, but their
perspectives should still be included in theory and best practices. This study seeks to create …

Strong service orientations and fostering self-sufficiency: How librarians approach reference work in Lahore, Pakistan

A VanScoy, M Rafiq - Journal of Librarianship and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Orientations to reference and information service are the values, attitudes, and beliefs that
librarians have about reference work. These orientations reveal the cognitive and emotional …

Learning to search and learning to slow down or “The quick and the dead”

R Morrison - Journal of Documentation, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study examines the temporal dynamics shaping our understanding of search
in education and the role language plays in legitimising these dynamics. It critiques the way …