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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
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4.07 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging
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Robert G. Weiner (Editor)
4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 200,
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Information Sources in Women's Studies and Feminism
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Hope A. Olson (Editor)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 195,
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Fostering Family History Services: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Volunteers
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 193,
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
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Marilyn Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.42 avg rating — 4,828 ratings
score: 193,
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I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
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Gina Sheridan (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 9,477 ratings
score: 190,
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Where are all the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia
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Rebecca Hankins (Editor)
3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 189,
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Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
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Travis McDade (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 167 ratings
score: 187,
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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3.89 avg rating — 3,818 ratings
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Service Learning
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score: 184,
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Feminists Among Us: Resistance and Advocacy in Library Leadership
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Shirley Lew (editor)
4.18 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 182,
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Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People
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Sanford Berman (Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 180,
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Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access
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Ellen Greenblatt (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 178,
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Queer Library Alliance: Global Reflections and Imaginings
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Rae-Anne Montague (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 176,
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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
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Shawn Wilson (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 640 ratings
score: 174,
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Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS
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Rose L. Chou (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 171,
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Class and Librarianship: Essays at the Intersection of Information, Labor and Capital
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Erik Estep (Editor)
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 168,
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Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science
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Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (Editor)
4.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 166,
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Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery
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3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 163,
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Human Operators: A Critical Oral History on Technology in Libraries and Archives
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Melissa Morrone (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 159,
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The Feminist Reference Desk: Concepts, Critiques, and Conversations
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Maria T. Accardi (Editor)
4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 155,
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Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom
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Nicole A Cooke (Editor)
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score: 153,
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Progressive Community Action: Critical Theory and Social Justice in Library and Information Science
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Bharat Mehra (Editor)
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score: 150,
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The Psychology of Librarianship
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Lynn Gullickson Spencer (editor)
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 147,
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In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada
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Jennifer Dekker (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 147,
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Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond
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Melissa Morrone (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 143,
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Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Profesional Praxis
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Lua Gregory (Editor)
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 140,
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Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction
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4.07 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 140,
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Greening Libraries
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Monika Antonelli (Editor)
2.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 136,
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Out Behind the Desk: Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians (Series on Gender and Sexuality in Librarianship)
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Tracy Nectoux (Editor)
3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 136,
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
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3.76 avg rating — 308 ratings
score: 133,
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The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism
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4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 131,
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So You Want to Be a Librarian
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Lauren Pressley (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 202 ratings
score: 124,
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Information and Liberation: Writings on the Politics of Information and Librarianship
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 120,
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Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian
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Alison Lewis (Contributor)
3.84 avg rating — 104 ratings
score: 120,
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Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series)
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 114,
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Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries
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Olivia Piepmeier (editor)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 110,
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Research Methods in Information
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3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century
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3.81 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries
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3.52 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Building Workforce Literacy in Libraries: Connecting Communities with Opportunities
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 99,
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Subject Analysis in Online Catalogs
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Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front
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K.R. Roberto (Editor)
4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 96,
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Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
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Melissa Adler (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 87 ratings
score: 93,
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Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control
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Jane Sandberg (Editor)
4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 87,
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We Can Do I.T.: Women in Library Information Technology
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Jenny Brandon (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 85,
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The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom: Concepts, Cases, and Theories
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Mark Alfino (Editor)
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 82,
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Reference Librarianship & Justice: History, Practice & PRAXIS
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Kate Adler (Editor)
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 80,
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Toward a Critical-Inclusive Assessment Practice for Library Instruction
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Lyda McCartin (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 79,
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Open Divide Critical Studies on Open Access
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Joachim Schopfel (Editor)
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The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship
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Karen P. Nicholson (Editor)
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Critical Information Literacy: Foundations, Inspiration, and Ideas
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4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 73,
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Critical Journeys: How 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A History of Modern Librarianship: Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures
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Wayne A. Wiegand (Editor)
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"An Active Instrument for Propaganda": The American Public Library During World War I (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series)
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Beyond Article 19: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights
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Julie Biando Edwards (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 59,
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Humanism and Libraries: An Essay on the Philosophy of Librarianship
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3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods
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Maria T. Accardi (Editor)
4.04 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 57,
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The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship
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Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good
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2.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable Systems
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
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3.97 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Next-Gen Library Catalogs (The Tech Set, 1)
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship
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Karen P. Nicholson (editor)
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