Locating Wojnarowicz: Moving Through Library Systems, Structures and Technologies

This paper asks critical questions about the role of classification structures and descriptive systems in generating new knowledge from library and archives collections. Grounded in theories of articulation advanced by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the authors posit that librarians and archivists might function better as translators across classifying systems, rather than as merely transcribers and builders of the systems themselves. The analysis looks to two collections of materials by and about queer artist and activist David Wojnarowicz to understand the varying ways libraries and archives construct stable articulations around shifting subjects of knowledge

Interview with Nikhil Chopra

CNC interviews performance and installation artist Nikhil Chopra about Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX, on exhibit through February 2010 at New York's New Museum

Beginning and Extending the Conversation

The co-editors of a special issue of Communications in Information Literacy describe the origins and context for this issue and provide an overview of the ideas and perspectives of the contributors. The issue looks back at the past decade since the publication of Critical Library Instruction: Theories & Methods (Library Juice Press/Litwin Books, 2010)

Locating Wojnarowicz: Moving Through Library Systems, Structures and Technologies

This paper asks critical questions about the role of classification structures and descriptive systems in generating new knowledge from library and archives collections. Grounded in theories of articulation advanced by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the authors posit that librarians and archivists might function better as translators across classifying systems, rather than as merely transcribers and builders of the systems themselves. The analysis looks to two collections of materials by and about queer artist and activist David Wojnarowicz to understand the varying ways libraries and archives construct stable articulations around shifting subjects of knowledge

Miracle Workers

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We Are Phamaly

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Blended Engagements with Writing from the Diaspora

This workshop draws on our experiences designing and teaching a blended interdisciplinary seminar focused on the diverse concerns of contemporary literature, criticism and theory written by a selection of black women throughout the African Diaspora. In this course, students worked with freely-available technologies to curate and present information, organize and contextualize evidence, evaluate data and documents, and establish the main points of the texts under analysis. In this workshop, we will discuss how students used specific tools (e.g., Padlet, Google Maps, and Pinterest) to draw relationships between literary and historical evidence and data, and to engage themes like exile and diaspora, memory as a form of resistance, and the depiction of public and private traumas, in and across course texts. We will share our process of connecting conventional learning goals for literary and historic analysis with accessible tools, and our approach to scaffolding a series of small-stakes assignments over the course of the term. This combination of tools and framework allowed our students to engage creatively, build confidence as digital humanities practitioners, and feel ownership and investment in their learning. In conversation with workshop leaders, participants will explore how they might create (or adapt) a course module using the approach we have taken, linking learning goals, modes of analysis, and accessible tools, and then developing a scaffolded approach for that course module. We encourage participants to bring a text or an assignment to the workshop for the hands-on portion of the session

Beginning and Extending the Conversation

The co-editors of this special issue of Communications in Information Literacy describe the origins and context for this issue and provide an overview of the ideas and perspectives of the contributors