WILU 2024

In this interactive talk, I will delineate how dominant conceptions of academic integrity, intellectual property, research and authorship are intertwined with colonial and capitalist myths and/or norms of meritocracy, atomized individuality, commodification, and exclusion. What if teaching and learning both more broadly and specifically in libraries was rooted in understandings and practices that consciously acknowledge interdependence and the whole person? What would be entailed in energizing ethical and robust knowledge as fundamentally rooted in collaboration and reciprocity, community and liberation? How would this transform the role of the library and of librarians? How may this decolonize how questions of citation and academic integrity, research and archiving, equity and access are undertaken in an academic library? What kinds of transformative orientations and community-centred practices may this encourage? My hope is to both share some of my own ideas and thoughts with regard to the above but also to facilitate some activities if/as possible and to leave sufficient time for meaningful dialogue and exchange.