Inaugural Issue of Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

January 29, 2016

The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Libraries (CAPAL) today released the inaugural issue of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.

From CAPAL:

The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL).

The journal publishes articles on topics related to academic librarians and the profession of academic librarianship. For CAPAL, and therefore for the journal, defining features of academic librarians are that they are members of a profession committed to fostering and upholding the core academic values and principles associated with teaching, learning, and research in higher education, and they play an integral role in supporting the academic missions of post-secondary institutions. The journal’s particular focus is on topics that relate to these defining features of academic librarians and that relate to the values articulated in Academic Librarianship: A Statement of Principles.

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial

Éditorial

Articles

Student Success and the Neoliberal Academic Library
by Ian Beilin

Foucault, the “Facts,” and the Fiction of Neutrality: Neutrality in Librarianship and Peer Review
by Heidi Johnson

A Classification of Digital Emergence: A Critical Approach to the Production of Digital Objects in Special Collections
by Robert D. Montoya

Library Councils and Governance in Canadian University Libraries: A Critical Review
by Eva Revitt and Sean Luyk

Enlightenment, Neoliberalism, and Information Literacy
by Maura Seale

Steven Salaita, the Critical Importance of Context, and Our Professional Ethics
by Sveta Stoytcheva

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Virgile Stark, Crépuscule des bibliothèques
reviewed by Roger Charland

Stephen Bales, The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach
reviewed by Michael Quinn Dudley