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Sam Popowich, author of the new title, Solving names: Worldliness and metaphysics in librarianship, from Library Juice Press, in conversation with Joel Blechinger, discusses the book.
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Sam Popowich
Sam Popowich is a Canadian academic librarian in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He holds an MLIS from Dalhousie University and an MA in Music and Cultural Theory from Carleton University. He is also a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Birmingham, researching the connections between Canadian libraries, politics, and intellectual freedom. Since 2007, he has worked at a number of Canadian universities, and has published numerous articles on politics, technology, and librarianship. He has contributed to The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship, The Free Speech Wars, and Ethics in Linked Data, and is the author of Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach (Library Juice Press, 2019). He is a section editor for the Journal of Radical Librarianship and a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians, the Canadian Political Science Association, and the University of Winnipeg’s Centre for Research in Cultural Studies.