The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge
Book Chapter
Lawson, S. (2020)
The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge. In M. P. Eve, & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (161-172). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press). https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001
To complement contemporary discussions on open access, this chapter considers public libraries as one element of the longer history of access to scholarly knowledge. A histori...
Commodification of the information profession: a critique of higher education under neoliberalism
Journal Article
Lawson, S., Sanders, K., & Smith, L. (2015)
Commodification of the information profession: a critique of higher education under neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182
The structures that govern society’s understanding of information have been reorganised under a neoliberal worldview to allow information to appear and function as a commodity...