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Item Open Access Affective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic Librarian(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) Sloniowski, LisaThe affective turn in the humanities and social sciences seeks to theorize the social through examining spheres of experience, particularly bodily experience and the emotions, not typically explored in dominant theoretical paradigms of the twentieth century. Affective or immaterial labor is work that is intended to produce or alter emotional experiences in people. Although it has a long history, affective labor has been of increasing importance to modern economies since the nineteenth century. This paper will explore the gendered dimensions of affective labor and offer a feminist reading of the production of academic subjectivities through affective labor by specifically examining the pink-collar immaterial labor of academic reference and liaison librarians. It will end by exploring how the work of the academic librarian may also productively subvert the neoliberal goals of the corporate university.Item Open Access Item Open Access Editorial(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2020) Sloniowski, Lisa; Nicholson, Karen; Schmidt, JaneItem Open Access The Feminist Porn Archive Project: Questions from a Working Ontologist(Testimonial Cultures Project, 2016-01-25) Sloniowski, LisaFeminists have long been concerned by archival silences and their impact on memory. Most reclamation work has been about uncovering the buried or lost records of women and inserting interpretations of such material inside broad social, political, cultural and historical narratives. Archivists and librarians also create new and sometimes exciting juxtapositions of archival material that allows for radical recontextualizations of womens’ cultural and political contributions. Archival work at every stage is thus a process of transforming private documents into public testimonial. However, in the creation of women’s archives inside institutional archives using traditional archival principles, we replicate neoliberal ideological formations by emphasizing the individual subject and focusing on the records of primarily white straight women of privilege. How might we instead use the new archival media of the Internet to explore feminist theoretical emphases on collectivity, intersubjectivity, intersectionality, and the affective relations of care, desire and intimacy? How do we prevent subjectivity and meaning from being fixed into place but allow for more slippery and promiscuous plays of meaning in a public feminist archive? How might we reboot the archives of women through digitization, and also provoke feminist rethinkings of the technologies of archivization? Linked open data can be viewed as a deeply post-structuralist response to the nomological principle of authority and commandment of the traditional archive and offers us a generative, erotic commingling of information which resists fixity and hierarchy and focuses instead on relationality. In this paper I will speculate about how a feminist porn archive can, through linked data spatializations and their attendant onotologies, offer new ways of thinking about the archive and the archival-able. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc843dKCBJEItem Open Access Grinding the Gears: Academic Librarians and Civic Responsibility(2013) Sloniowski, Lisa; Ryan, Patti; Williams, MitaCorporate encroachments are transforming universities into edu-factories which are designed to produce servants of the state rather than engaged citizens. Academic librarians have a duty to resist the machineries of the institution. This panel will survey the revolutionary potential inherent in the open source movement, feminist porn collections, and critical information literacy.Item Open Access Introduction: Strange Circulations: Affect and the Library.(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) Sloniowski, Lisa; Adler, KateIntroduction to a special issue of Library Trends on the role of affect in library work.Item Open Access Ordering Things(Library Juice Press, 2018-03-01) Coysh, Sarah J.; Denton, William; Sloniowski, LisaItem Open Access PhD as Resistance: How the Personal Got Political.(2017-03-01) Sloniowski, LisaItem Open Access The Public Academic Library: Friction in the Teflon Funnel(Library Juice Press, 2013) Ryan, Patti; Sloniowski, LisaHow does one engage in a radical pedagogical praxis when constrained by a growing awareness of the ways in which libraries and librarians are institutions of hegemonic order? Using Henry Giroux’s work on critical pedagogy and its potential for cultivating an engaged citizenry, this article offers a rationale for developing an information literacy praxis that considers and creates opportunities for resisting the neoliberal imperatives that are re-fashioning higher education from a public good into training for the marketplace. We suggest that librarians can work to counter such a climate through thoughtful IL policy development and drop-in programming that makes critical sociopolitical interventions at particular historical moments, and offer practical descriptions of two library workshops on the 2003 Iraq War and the Occupy Movement. We conclude by exploring how one can advocate for libraries and librarians within this sort of programming, and how such advocacy is also, and necessarily, an act of radical pedagogical praxis in its intentional prioritization of democratic values and social responsibility.Item Open Access Social Justice Librarianship for the 21st Century(2012) Sloniowski, Lisa; Williams, MitaItem Open Access Solidarity is a Two Way Street(Research for Citizenship blog, 2012-02-06) Sloniowski, LisaItem Open Access Stripping the Stacks: Librarians, Pornography and Pedagogical Possibility(2013-09-10) Sloniowski, LisaWhen librarians and faculty work together as research partners, building unique collections and developing mutually constitutive research questions, new pedagogical possibilities emerge demonstrating the relationship between research, libraries, librarians and teaching. Students enter into critically engaged conversations about collection development, canonization and the role of libraries and archives in dominant forms of knowledge production. When the research investigates the role and history of libraries in relation to the contested terrain of pornography in particular, such work uniquely lays bare the relatively invisible practices and implications of archival and library work to our students. Porn then, exposes the gears of archival knowledge production, strips the Library of its clothes, and, because librarians are positioned as scholarly activists and allies in this conversation rather than as institutional agents, allows for a more fulfilling set of relations to develop between librarians, students and faculty.Item Open Access This is Not a Love Story: Libraries and Feminist Porn(2012) Sloniowski, LisaItem Open Access Who Speaks for Libraries and Librarians.(2013-07-09) Sloniowski, Lisa