This project investigates whether workers in Canadian academic libraries are receiving gender diversity training and in what forms. The recent rise of anti-trans sentiment and aggression on Canadian streets, in parliaments, schools, libraries and online spaces warrants an urgent recentering of trans communities in both our scholarship and work environments. Since at least 2005, LIS literature has been exploring the experience of trans and gender non-conforming  library patrons and worker...

In the Canadian context, there is a notable dearth of professional literature focusing on racial minority librarians conducted by racial minority librarians. To address this gap, a team of six  librarians, representing the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) network, undertook a second comprehensive survey in 2021, building on the initial survey conducted in 2013. The 2021 survey, which included data from 162 minority librarians, served as the foundation for three peer-reviewe...

Sex – and media that depicts sex and sexually suggestive subject matter – remains stigmatised in western society. As pornography and sexually explicit material more broadly have become of increasing interest to researchers across several disciplines such as pornography studies and gender and sexuality studies, so too does the demand on institutions and practitioners in libraries, archives, and special collections to provide access to these materials. However, the taboo associated with the sub...

We are performing a citation analysis of scholarly articles published in two Canadian public policy and public administration journals across five, one-year periods: 1994, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019.Our main focus has been differentiating between citations to government sources and those to traditional academic literature and grey literature. Within the government sources we have differentiated between Canadian federal, non-federal and international sources, documents and records, and o...