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The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is now published by Litwin Books. Visit the journal’s new home to learn about the journal, read published issues, and submit your work.

Welcome to Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is an open source, open peer review journal focusing on critical approaches to the field of digital librarianship.

Feel free to contact the editors to discuss submission ideas.

Recent Content

The President’s Shoelaces, Goncharov, and Other Cultural Artifacts: Tumblr, the Internet Archive, and Queer Cultural Preservation
Kestrel Ward

Speculative Telephone: Oral Historians and Digital Librarians on How Libraries Could Be
Kae Kratcha

Let Us Fail: Speculative Futures and Digital Librarianship
Natalia Estrada, Kristina Bush, and Stacy Snyder

Desire Paths in the Information Landscape
Victoria Van Hyning, Mason A. Jones, and Travis Wagner

Editors' Introduction
Leah Powell Duncan, Janina Mueller, Rachel Starry, SL Ziegler, and Emily M. Zinger

Editors' Introduction
Sophia Ziegler and Leah Powell Duncan

From Mapping Place to Mapping Space in Library GIS Work
Lena Denis

Leveraging Critical Information Literacy to Develop Social Justice-Minded Data Literacy Competencies
Ben B. Chiewphasa and Matthew L. Sisk

Toward Ethical and Inclusive Descriptive Practices
Shira Peltzman and Kelly Besser

Toward Empathetic Digital Repositories: An Interview with Diego Pino Navarro
Sophia Ziegler

Using Digital Libraries to Engage the Whole Student: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, Trauma-Informed Classrooms, and Project-Based Learning
Alejandra Torres

Listening, Care, and Collections as Data
Jacqueline Wernimont

Centering the Margins in Digital Project Planning
Dorothy Berry

It Matters Who Does This Work: An Interview with Tonia Sutherland
Sophia Ziegler

Editors' Introduction
Sophia Ziegler, Leah Powell Duncan, and Gina Costello