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Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies

Greenshields, Mary; Polkinghorne, Sarah

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Title
Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies
Author(s)
  • Greenshields, Mary
  • Polkinghorne, Sarah
Issue Date
2022
Keyword(s)
  • joy of information
  • love
Abstract
Library and information studies (LIS) has yet to see an exploration of the workings of love, as a force that both explicitly and implicitly underpins practices and rhetoric within our discipline. Understanding the “force” that is love requires analysis of social, and collective, relations. This paper draws on selected literature in order to present such an exploration for the first time. As this paper illustrates, love provides a distinctive, feminist lens onto structures and power dynamics. It can illuminate, and create opportunities to address, divergent challenges within LIS and the world at large.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 70 (4). Spring 2022
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0011
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2022 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 70 (4) Spring 2022: Joy of Information [Restricted Access] PRIMARY
Library Trends 70 (4) Spring 2022: Joy of Information [Restricted Access]. Edited by Jenna Hartel and Hailey Siracky.