Spring 2023 | Vol. 109, No. 2

This special issue of Academe is focused on academic libraries and librarians in higher education. Guest edited by Danya Leebaw, director of the social sciences department at the University of Minnesota Libraries, the new issue stresses the need for solidarity between "traditional faculty" and academic librarians. Articles examine such topics as threats to freedom of expression in the library, the importance of critical information literacy, collective bargaining for librarians, and how libraries might serve as an institutional model for educational innovation.

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FEATURES

The Fight for Libraries
Libraries and higher education face a shared battle.
By Emily Drabinski

Critical Information Literacy for Collective Action
Library workers have a crucial role in the contemporary information environment.
By Reanna Esmail

How Academic Freedom Brought Our Librarian Union Together
Collective bargaining is a powerful tool for securing workplace rights for librarians.
By Martin J. Brennan

Worldliness and Freedom in the Academy
Academic and intellectual freedom are not above material considerations.
By Sam Popowich

Lessons from Academic Libraries about Building a New Academic Field
The field of learning innovation and academic librarianship can make common cause.
By Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney

The Once and Future Faculty Status of Academic Librarians at the University of Virginia
A flexible "library track" may be a model for other types of faculty work.
By Keith Weimer

Data Snapshot: Tenure and Contingency in Higher Education (online only)
Federal figures on faculty appointments and graduate student employment in US higher education.
By Glenn Colby

BOOK REVIEWS

Mythical Labor Markets and Demographic Crises of the Education Reform Movement
Neil Kraus reviews The Agile College by Nathan D. Grawe.

Technologies of Behavior in Higher Education
Kevin Gannon reviews Teaching Machines by Audrey Watters.

Unpacking the "Completion Crisis" at Community Colleges
Anne B. McGrail reviews The Costs of Completion by Robin G. Isserles.

Surveying the Role of Data in Higher Education
Jim Vander Putten reviews Big Data on Campus, ed. Karen L. Webber and Henry Y. Zheng.

CHAPTER PROFILE

Central State University AAUP Chapter

COLUMNS

From the Guest Editor: Lessons from the Library

Faculty Forum: Learning with ChatGPT

Legal Watch: Supreme Court's Gun Rulings Threaten Academic Freedom

From the President: Defending Academic Libraries