Release date: June 10, 2025. Length: 76:23 minutes.
In which we talk with Chloe Dufour about librarians, research, and time. We hear about Chloe's research on public service librarians' relationship with time; and the challenges of finding time, and making use of time, to do research as part of professional or promotion requirements.
Listen to Episode 06 in the UMN Digital Conservancy.
Read the Episode 06 transcript.
Mentioned in the episode:
Nicholson, K. P. (2022). Spatial thinking, gender and immaterial affective labour in the post-Fordist academic library. Journal of Documentation, 78(1), 96–112. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2020-0194
Shara Sharma, including “It Changes Space and Time: Introducing Power-Chronography” in Jeremy Packer and Steve Wiley (eds) Communication Matters: Materialities, Infrastructure, and Flows, Routledge, 2012. 65-77
Sloniowski, L. (2016). Affective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic Librarian. Library Trends 64(4), 645-666. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0013.
Chloe Dufour is the business librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. She got her bachelor's degree in cognitive science and master's degree in library science from Indiana University. Her professional research interests include labor in libraries and increasingly how the rise in AI usage affects labor in libraries and academia as a whole. Her personal interests include playing video games and visiting museums.
Gamache, E., Power, H., & Jones, R. (2025). Summer of writing: Supporting the research and publishing needs of academic librarians. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51(3), 103028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103028
featured: Belcher, W. L. (2019). Writing your journal article in twelve weeks: A guide to academic publishing success. University of Chicago Press.
Karvovskaya, L., Yeomans, J., & Rodenburg, E. (2025). The Data Horror Escape Room game as a successful tool for RDM education and engagement. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 35(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.16089
McCord, D., Cassady, S., Roman, P., Cato, J., & Mantz, E. (2025). Sustainability in library collection development: Introducing a green audit template. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v11.43852
Ruen, M., & Schultz, T. (2025, May 14). OA 101: Problematizing "predatory" publishing [Webinar]. SPARC. https://youtu.be/IEhNqOC_1UU?feature=shared
featured: Reviews: The Journal of Journal Reviews (RJJR)
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