In the past couple of weeks, I’ve published two papers. I just wanted to plug them briefly here:

“From Weberian Rationalization to JavaScript Components: Modularism in Academic Library Software” was published today in Information Technology and Libraries, and discusses the pervasiveness of modular approaches from the social sciences to library software. It is where Max Weber enthusiasts and JavaScript nerds can hopefully find common ground. Admittedly, that’s an underexplored intersection, but hopefully at least a bit interesting.

My other recent paper is “Critique, Postcritique and Libraries,” published on August 25th in the Journal of Creative Library Practice. This is an essay — in other words, not peer-reviewed — which is probably appropriate, since the argument that it makes is a bit speculative. Basically, it is arguing that there are potential novel arguments outside of what has been called “critical librarianship.” Perhaps controversial, but aiming to be constructive, not argumentative.

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