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Midura, Rachel. Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe
No full textUne généalogie de la bibliothéconomie militante : collectivité, action et mobilisation comme alternative à la bibliothéconomie critique
No full textRadical librarianship and critical librarianship are in some ways complementary approaches to politically-motivated change within librarianship and information science. Despite their similarities, radical librarianship has remained a somewhat fringe position and has not gained the comparatively mainstream acceptance of critical librarianship. Though the history of radical librarianship stretches back to the 1960s and 1970s, it was recently promoted in the United Kingdom and Ireland through Radical Librarians Collective, an organized collective of library worker activists rooted in anarcho-syndicalist and feminist principles that was active between 2013 and 2018. Through outlining a brief history of the Radical Librarians Collective and other radical librarianship movements and groups, we reflect on the differences of approach between radical librarianship and critical librarianship. In particular, we contrast the two approaches’ differing orientation towards political action and how this impacts the dilution and appropriation of critical librarianship work in the political mainstream of librarianship with a specific focus on decolonization work in libraries. We end by considering the limitations and organizational failings of the Radical Librarians Collective as a way to consider possible futures for both radical and critical librarianship. We argue that radical librarianship offers a more practice-based approach than critical librarianship, emphasising political activism, direct action, and the building of local radical alternatives in a way that could offer a dialectical unity with critical librarianship.La bibliothéconomie militante et la bibliothéconomie critique sont à certains égards des approches complémentaires du changement motivé par des considérations politiques au sein de la bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l\u27information. Malgré leurs similitudes, la bibliothéconomie militante est restée une position quelque peu marginale et n\u27a pas gagné l\u27acceptation relativement courante de la bibliothéconomie critique. Bien que l\u27histoire de la bibliothéconomie militante remonte aux années 1960 et 1970, elle a récemment été promue au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande par le biais du Radical Librarians Collective. Ce collectif, organisé de travailleuses et travailleurs bibliothécaires militant.e., a été fondé dans des principes anarcho-syndicalistes et féministes, et a été actif entre 2013 et 2018. En relatant une brève histoire du Radical Librarians Collective et d\u27autres mouvements et groupes de bibliothéconomie militante, nous réfléchissons aux différences d\u27approche entre la bibliothéconomie militante et la bibliothéconomie critique. En particulier, nous comparons les différentes orientations des deux approches vers l\u27action politique et son impact sur la dilution et l\u27appropriation du travail critique de la bibliothéconomie dans le courant politique dominant de la bibliothéconomie avec un accent particulier sur le travail de décolonisation dans les bibliothèques. Nous terminons en considérant les limites et les défaillances organisationnelles du Radical Librarians Collective comme un moyen d\u27envisager des avenirs possibles pour la bibliothéconomie militante et critique. Nous soutenons que la bibliothéconomie radicale offre une approche plus pratique que la bibliothéconomie critique, en mettant l\u27accent sur l\u27activisme politique, l\u27action directe et la construction d\u27alternatives radicales locales d\u27une manière qui pourrait offrir une unité dialectique avec la bibliothéconomie critique
Cinq décennies depuis Prejudices and Antipathies
No full textHow has the evolution of both library classification and the critical classification field affected the legacy and relevance of one of its most celebrated works? Sanford Berman’s 1971 monograph Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People, while being by no means the first to critically assess the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), gained significant interest (both positive and negative) from the cataloguing community. Steven A. Knowlton’s 2005 follow-up article Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings examined the impact of Berman’s book on the LCSH.
In 2025, this paper returns to Berman’s book to follow up on both works. Through an analysis of trends across published critical classification literature of the past five decades—in particular in relation to the approach taken by the book to criticism of the Library of Congress and LCSH in comparison to other topics—this paper examines how the landscape of critical classification has changed and, through that, how perceived obstacles and goals have shifted in the half century since the publication of Berman’s book, in order to examine its place and legacy.Comment l\u27évolution de la classification bibliographique et du domaine de la classification critique a-t-elle affecté l\u27héritage et la pertinence de l\u27un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres ? La monographie de Sanford Berman intitulée Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People, publiée en 1971, n\u27était certes pas la première à évaluer de manière critique les vedettes-matières de la Bibliothèque du Congrès (LCSH), mais elle a suscité un intérêt considérable (tant positif que négatif) de la part de la communauté des catalogueurs. En 2005, Steven A. Knowlton a examiné l\u27impact du livre de Berman sur les LCSH avec son article Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
En 2025, cet article revient sur le livre de Berman pour faire le point sur ces deux publications. En examinant les tendances émergentes dans la recherche critique sur la classification au fil des cinq dernières décennies, et en mettant l’accent sur l’approche de Berman pour critiquer la Bibliothèque du Congrès et les termes LCSH par rapport à d’autres sujets, cet article explore l’évolution du paysage de la classification critique. Il examine comment les défis et les objectifs perçus ont évolué depuis la publication du livre de Berman, tout en évaluant sa pertinence et son héritage
À la défense de l\u27imperfection
No full textThe demand for perfect solutions to complex institutional problems creates excessive, ever-changing barriers for racialized peoples working toward transformative justice. The same demand is not made of the methods used to adopt the emerging technologies which appeal to the libraries desire to appear in perpetual growth. This paper employed autoethnographic analysis and Storywork to understand and make meaning from our lived experiences as racialized librarians in relation to the sociopolitical spaces in which we work. These methodologies allowed us to expose complexities and vulnerabilities in our experiences with community-led work to return sacred Knowledge and offered us a means to critique the systems in which we operate and call upon our colleagues to embrace solutions that are gradual, decentralized, and imperfect. In this article, we make a series of calls to our colleagues as a means of engaging their thinking on unchecked assumptions that create greater barriers, more labour and burnout racialized colleagues. These calls create an ethic in place of best practices that challenge our profession to be responsive to local issues in relational ways. We offer this defense of imperfection as a means of bringing attention to the labour of social justice work within our profession and to ask all of our colleagues to embrace and make imperfect solutions possible.La demande de solutions parfaites à des problèmes institutionnels complexes crée des obstacles excessifs et en constante évolution pour les personnes racialisées qui œuvrent en faveur d\u27une justice transformatrice. La même exigence n\u27est pas imposée aux méthodes utilisées pour adopter les technologies émergentes qui répondent au désir des bibliothèques d\u27apparaître en perpétuelle croissance. Cet article a utilisé l\u27analyse autoethnographique et le Storywork pour comprendre et donner un sens à nos expériences vécues en tant que bibliothécaires racialisé.e.s par rapport aux espaces sociopolitiques dans lesquels nous travaillons. Ces méthodologies nous ont permis de mettre en évidence les complexités et les vulnérabilités de nos expériences dans le cadre du travail communautaire visant à restituer les connaissances sacrées, et nous ont offert un moyen de critiquer les systèmes dans lesquels nous opérons et d\u27appeler nos collègues à adopter des solutions progressives, décentralisées et imparfaites. Dans cet article, nous lançons une série d\u27appels à nos collègues afin de les inciter à réfléchir aux hypothèses non vérifiées qui créent des obstacles supplémentaires, alourdissent la charge de travail et épuisent les collègues racialisés. Ces appels créent une éthique qui remplace les meilleures pratiques et qui met notre profession au défi de répondre aux problèmes locaux de manière relationnelle. Nous proposons cette défense de l\u27imperfection afin d\u27attirer l\u27attention sur le travail de justice sociale au sein de notre profession et de demander à tous nos collègues d\u27adopter et de rendre possibles des solutions imparfaites
Associations Between Psychological Factors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Uptake in Métis Citizens in Ontario – A Population-based Data Linkage Study
No full textBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities and vulnerabilities among marginalized groups, particularly Indigenous Peoples in Canada. We assessed the influence of psychological antecedents of vaccine hesitancy on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Métis in Ontario, Canada.
Methods: The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) survey, a population-based online survey, was used to capture MNO citizens’ “5Cs” of psychological antecedents relating to vaccination intention (Confidence, Complacency, Constraint, Calculation, Collective Responsibility). Descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regression models were used to model vaccination status to assess the influence of psychological antecedents of vaccination with vaccination behaviour, by linking survey data to the Ontario COVID-19 Vaccine Database (COVaxON), which captures all COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Ontario.
Results: The study cohort size was 3,999, with 3,701 (92.5%) MNO citizens participating partially or fully vaccinated. Results from five separate logistic regression models suggested four variables/indicators from 5Cs – Confidence, Complacency, Calculation, and Collective Responsibility – were significantly associated with vaccination status, while Constraints was not.
Conclusions: This study contributes valuable insight on the factors that may influence the decision to opt out of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination among Métis and can inform the development of targeted public health interventions and educational strategies aimed at dispelling misconceptions about vaccination
There is a Doctor in the House: Physicians in the Canadian Parliament (1867–2025)
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Physician advocacy—recognized as a desired competency by both the CanMEDS framework and the Medical Council of Canada—can play a role in prioritizing health in public policy. However, there are clashing perspectives regarding physicians’ political participation, and the level of physician participation in Canadian politics remains unclear. The purpose of this retrospective descriptive review was to carry out historical documentation of the Canadian physicians elected as Members of Parliament (MPs) or appointed as Senators and identify trends in sociodemographic characteristics and political participation.
Methods
We identified Canadian physician parliamentarians and collected sociodemographic characteristics using publicly available data sources—specifically, the Library of Parliament’s Parliamentarians database, Canadian newspaper archives, biographies available on the parliamentarians’ official websites, and public registers for licensed physicians. Findings were tabulated and summarized using descriptive statistics and graphical presentation.
Results
We found that to date, 220 of 4,695 (4.69%) MPs, and 64 of 1,006 (6.4%) Senators have been physicians. Most physician decision-makers are men (96.8%), represent a riding in Ontario (38.6%) or Quebec (27.7%), and tend to run for office more than once (90%). We also found that since the first Parliament in 1867, there has consistently been at least one physician in the House of Commons, though there has been a steep decline in political participation since the 17th Parliament.
Discussion
Our study is the first to present a complete list of Canadian physicians elected to serve as MPs, or appointed to serve as Senators. We found that there has always been a physician in the House of Commons and the Senate: in fact, physicians are over-represented in Parliament compared to the general population. Despite over-representation, we note a decline in physician political participation, likely due to the increased rigor of standards to qualify as a physician and the challenges faced in political participation. This suggests a need to continue sustaining interest in pursuing political participation and advocacy among the current and next generation of physicians
Public Outreach in the Forensic Sciences: Design and Review of a Vape Lacing Workshop Module
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