Chapter from the ACRL book Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture. This chapter provides a bit of background on punk and libraries, identifies some toxic library cultures, and then suggests concrete ways for library workers to disrupt these cultures while maintaining boundaries that are regularly violated in library work.
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- Real punks advocate: Shifting the culture to address academic library toxicity
- Martinez, Rachel (Author)
- Ogborn, Matt (Author)
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Martinez, Rachel, and Matt Ogborn. “Real Punks Advocate: Shifting the Culture to Address Academic Library Toxicity.” Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture, edited by Michalak, Russell, Trevor A. Dawes, and Jon E. Cawthorne, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2024, pp. 105-118. https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.193864