I’m an academic librarian and this is one of my blogs. It covers my interests with intellectual liberty, the long term, and more. I’m concerned with ethical principles for access to the knowledge we maintain. I explore that substance known as “information,” sometimes finding it in the junctions of physical and digital ecosystems, sometimes elsewhere. I’m Joshua Chalifour. I live in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
As a digital scholarship librarian with the Concordia University Library, I assess and identify new possibilities that emerging technologies or forms of scholarship open for academic work (researching, teaching, and learning). I am the subject (liaison) librarian for both the Journalism and Communication Studies departments. I help people research and discover good information.
Topics such as the following, especially interest me.
- intellectual freedom
- digital culture and society
- information ethics
- open scholarship (including open access, free and open source software, open data, and open science)
- critical thinking
- information literacies
- cognitive liberty
- librarianship
- knowledge organization
- digital scholarship
- freedom of expression
- information policy and digital rights
- digital humanities
- information professionals’ subjectivity
- research techniques
In a different realm, see my abstract strategy board game, Adomoc, which I conceived and developed with Mike Keigher. My original blog, Phy-d’eau, started in 1998 with some creative pursuits and remains online (occasionally updated).
Obviously, the things I write here do not represent current or former employers.