Leading and Locked Out: Academic Community College Librarianship

Abstract

Academic Library Workers in Conversation is a C&RL News series focused on elevating the everyday conversations of library professionals. The wisdom of the watercooler has long been heralded, and this series hopes to go further by minimizing barriers to publishing with an accessible format. Each of the topics in the series were proposed by the authors, and they were given space to explore. This issue’s conversation discusses the role of community college librarianship in our profession. The authors highlight how library workers at community colleges are often leading the way, while still being “locked out” from the dominant narratives of academic libraries.—Dustin Fife, series editor