{"id":4949,"date":"2026-04-20T15:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:34:06","slug":"neoliberal-time-and-the-promise-of-slow-librarianship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/20\/neoliberal-time-and-the-promise-of-slow-librarianship\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoliberal Time and the Promise of Slow Librarianship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve meant to post about this for a while, but one of the book chapters I wrote back in 2023-24 during my sabbatical has finally come out (the other is estimated for early 2027, <sigh<\/em>…>). The book Slow Librarianship: Reflections and Practices<\/a><\/em> edited by the wonderful Ashley Rosener has finally been published by Library Juice Press! I deposited a copy of my chapter, “Neoliberal Time and the Promise of Slow Librarianship”<\/a> in Knowledge Works Commons so that anyone can freely access it. I’d love to hear your thoughts about it! I know a lot of people writing about slow librarianship have cited my blog posts because there isn’t a lot out there on slow librarianship and I’m not a big scholarly publishing type, so hopefully this will be useful to those folks looking for a more traditionally-published source to cite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also really honored to be keynoting<\/a> the Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM)<\/a> next month, talking about slow management in a fast world. Ironically, I had thought of submitting a proposal to give a talk on slow librarianship at the conference but talked myself out of it because I’m not currently a manager. It’s amazing that after 20 years in this profession, I still suffer from impostor syndrome. CALM has consistently been my favorite library conference to attend and it’s a conference that has embraced slow practices in everything they do so I’m especially honored to have been asked to speak. The conference is free to attend and my talk will be recorded, so I’ll be sure to share it once it’s up on the web. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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