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Join editor Ashley Rosener and a selection of authors as they discuss Slow Librarianship: Reflections and Practices, a new book from Library Juice Press
About the Book
What is slow librarianship? Julia Glassman first brought up the term slow librarianship in the 2017 article, “The Innovation Fetish and Slow Librarianship: What Librarians Can Learn from the Juicero.” Since then, Meredith Farkas has defined slow librarianship as “an antiracist, responsive, and values-driven practice that stands in opposition to neoliberal values.
Workers in slow libraries are focused on relationship-building, deeply understanding and meeting patron needs, and providing equitable services to their communities.”
Slow Librarianship: Reflections and Practices is an edited book that compiles chapters from librarians working in many different libraries throughout the United States, Canada, and Italy. The authors describe what slow librarianship means to them in their work and roles while sharing concrete practices and ways to enact the tenets of slow librarianship in your work.
Presenter Info
Brittni Ballard
Brittni Ballard (she/hers) is the Learning Technologies Librarian at Towson University in Baltimore County, MD. She is co-founder and co-chair of TU’s Disability, Neurodiversity, and Chronic Illness Faculty and Staff Association. Brittni is an accessibility evangelist and educator first, a digital pedagogy practitioner and critical technology enthusiast second, and liaison librarian third. She pursues a world of inclusion, not accommodation.
Brooke Duffy
Darcy Gervasio
Darcy I. Gervasio (she/her) is an associate librarian and Coordinator of Reference Services at Purchase College Library, State University of New York. She is also the liaison librarian for several social science disciplines. Her job, like her research interests, is eclectic includes scholarship on AI for collection development, SMS and virtual reference, disinformation/fake news, library outreach to grassroots movements like Occupy Wall Street, critical information literacy, and slow assessment.
Lindsay Gibb
Lindsay Gibb (she/her) is the Collections Librarian at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library. She has over a decade of experience working with zines and comics in academic libraries. Her research interests include radical and critical librarianship, activism in library history, and comics censorship. She is the author of the award-winning book National Treasure: Nicolas Cage from ECW Press.
Christine Jansen
Christine Jansen (she/her) is a Research and Instruction Librarian and Adjunct Professor for INTEC 1111: Information and Digital Literacy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She brings over a decade of experience teaching information literacy as a School Library Media Specialist, Young Adult Librarian, and Academic Librarian.
Stefania Marzocchi
Stefania Marzocchi (she/her) is a Technical Assistant in the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She is currently working on her PhD in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem at the University of Bologna (Italy), with a research focus on operational excellence in libraries to enhance both work quality and workplace relationships.
Este Pope
Este Pope (she/her) works as the Head of the Digital Library Technologies Group at Dartmouth Libraries and is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership and Organization Studies at Bay Path University. Este has held a wide range of roles in academic libraries. She is currently exploring the human aspects of technology-related work in research libraries for her doctoral studies.
Cecillia Tellis
Cecilia Tellis (she/her) is the Interim Associate University Librarian, Research Services at the University of Ottawa Library, where she has worked since 2007. In previous roles, she proposed best practices on equity, diversity, and inclusion issues as they relate to librarianship and the workplace. Cecilia holds a Master’s in Library and Information Studies from McGill University and a BA in French language and literature from the University of Toronto.