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...

For 3 months in 2023 I collected job postings on the partnership job board, and have been analyzing them to determine what salaries people who work in Canadian libraries are being offered, and what that means for their material quality of life.The main research questions I have set out to answer are: 1. Based on salary information available for new job postings in libraries, what is the material quality of life that someone working in a library can expect to have? 2. ...

Following the introduction of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL, 2016) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, efforts to meaningfully promote and enact the more conceptually oriented form of post-secondary information literacy instruction (ILI) evinced by the document have spread. However, perceptions of the Framework as elitist or inaccessible; the persistence of one-shot sessions as the dominant ILI format; and the difficulty of teaching and learning...