New articles: Affect and the Library

The latest Library Trends, Volume 68, Number 3, Winter 2020, is an interesting issue with teh theme Strange Circulations: Affect and the Library (edited by Kate Adler and Lisa Sloniowski). The articles are free to access. Particularly relevant to this blog is:
Curiosity is a Luxury of the Financially Secure: The Affective Thresholds of Information Literacy by  Sarah H. Mabee and Sarah E. Fancher. ("In this article, we examine themes that emerged via directed conversations with focus groups of students enrolled at a large, open-enrollment community college located in a high-poverty area of Southwest Missouri.")
The other articles are also interesting and include:
- Affect and Deaccessioning in the Academic Library: Feelings about Books and Place by Deborah Prosser
- Concealing White Supremacy through Fantasies of the Library: Economies of Affect at Work by Michele R. Santamaria
- Bodies, Brains, and Machines: An Exploration of the Relationship between the Material and Affective States of Librarians and Information Systems by Stacy Allison-Cassin
Go to https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42118
Photo by Sheila Webber: curious young chestnut leaves peeping through the fence.