Well, seriously, Flora, what can we women do? Sentimentalism, Suffrage and Reform in Lillie Devereaux Blake\u27s Fettered for Life

Summoning but reconfiguring the sentimental novel, Lillie Devereux Blake\u27s Fettered for Life (1874) uses pathos to incite political action and begin a radical reform of patriarchal postbellum America. Of particular interest to Blake are suffrage, legal protection of women\u27s lives and property, educational reform, and equitable pay and employment opportunities. In Fettered for Life there are eight suspicious or unnatural deaths which Blake links to a corrupt social order and archaic, ill-founded assumptions about women and womanhood. This article explores Blake\u27s reform agenda and her use and revisioning of sentimentalism for rhetorical purposes

Invisible in Plain View: Libraries, Archives, Digitization, Memory, and the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars

Invisible in Plain View: Libraries, Archives, Digitization, Memory, and the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars considers a digitization and oral history project on Boomer Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars

Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical Praxis

Drawing on discussions within Composition and Rhetoric, this article examines information literacy pedagogy. It considers how academic librarians can work toward theorizing our profession in such a way that we may ask new questions of it and foster creative, reflective and critical habits of mind regarding pedagogical praxis

Talking Back to a Tote Bag: Or, How a Tote Bag inspired Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear

Heidi L.M. Jacobs reflects on the journey that led her to become the 2020 winner of the coveted Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humou

Posing the Wikipedia \u27Problem\u27: Information Literacy and the Praxis of Problem-Posing in Library Instruction

Viewing Wikipedia as a difficult information literacy question allows us to consider how knowledge is created, produced, and disseminated, and to interrogate our current understanding of scholarship, scholarly authority, and the academy

Teachers\u27 Guide to Scott Chantler\u27s Mini Comic All Stars: The True Story of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars

This Teachers\u27 Guide is intended to accompany Scott Chantler\u27s mini comic All Stars: the True Story of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars. This comic and teachers\u27 guide were produced as part of the Telling the Stories of Race and Sports in Canada project, funded by a SSHRC Connections Grant and supported by the University of WIndsor, the Chatham Kent Black Historical Society and the Essex County Black Research Society

Questioning the Past and Possible Futures: Digital Historiography and Critical Librarianship

The role of history as a discipline is, as Burton and Sweeny claim, not only to transform our understanding of the past and the present but also to shape possible futures. Digital historical projects are transformative endeavors that attempt to negotiate and navigate the past and articulate these possible futures. Drawing on the foundational ideas of critical librarianship to “intervene in and disrupt” structural inequities and on examples from digital historiography, we argue for a more robust role for librarians within these transformative endeavors. In so doing, librarians can use conscious, deliberate, reflexive actions to work toward animating values central to librarianship