Deconstructing Service in Libraries: Intersections of Identities and Expectations. Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby, eds. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2020. 404p. Paperback, $22.75 (ISBN 978-1634000604).

Abstract

Editors Veronica Arellano Douglas and Joanna Gadsby have assembled a work that contributes to many perspectives on service in the library. The collection presents 19 chapters of diverse individual experiences from library workers—most of whom are academics, with a few from public libraries. These perspectives deal with important issues of service in the profession as seen through the lenses of workers with specific group identities. These identities as presented by the authors include but are not limited to the disabled, gender identity and sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, and stigmatization of fat bodies (terms used by the contributors).