A look down a hallway between rows of white shelves full of books in a Calgary Public Library.

Library Lens Episode 01: CritLib, Gender, and Book Bans with Stephanie Jeanes

ByCourtenay Adams

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About the Episode

In this episode, Courtenay and special guest Stephanie Jeanes analyze the defunding of Patmos Library over the book Gender Queer through a Critical Librarianship lens.

For some background information to support your enjoyment of this podcast episode, please check out the Washington Post story we discuss here: A Mich. library refused to remove an LGBTQ book. The town defunded it*

Note: This podcast episode was created to fulfill the requirements for a project assigned during Fall 2022 LIS 530 at the University of Alberta.

*This link was added to this post on October 26, 2022, two days after the deadline of the assignment, per the suggestion of our peers.

Related Materials

Episode Transcript, References, and Further Reading & Resources (.pdf)

Acknowledgements

Music credits:

Under The Sun by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon
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Photo by Ryunosuke Kikuno on Unsplash.