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Michael Kirby

Michael Kirby is an Assistant Professor/Metadata Librarian at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MLS from Queens College, the City University of New York and was a 2022 ALA Emerging Leader. He served as a Director-at-Large for the Intellectual Freedom Round Table from 2022-2024.

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Contact

[email protected]

Website

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Y1SGEssAAAAJ

Education

  • MLS Queens College, CUNY
  • MA The Graduate Center, CUNY, Liberal Studies  
  • BA Brooklyn College, CUNY, Philosophy      

Positions

Assistant Professor, Library, Kingsborough Community College

Publications

  • Kirby, M. (Forthcoming). Standards complaint: ACRL, CUNY, and faculty status for librarians. Inhospitable: the lived experiences of librarians.  
  • Kirby, M. (2025). [Review of Digital degrowth: Technology in the age of survival]. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 11(2025), 33-35. https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/129/118  
  • Kirby, M. (2025). Bibliographic instruction and the need for “librarian-first” OER repositories. In K. Casey & J. Pinkley (Eds.), Community college library: Collections and technical services (pp. 151-158). Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/kb_pubs/264/ 
  • Kirby, M. (2024). The intellectual freedom syllabus. In C. Bishop & W. Doucette (Eds.), “Our community chimes in.” Journal of Graduate Librarianship, 2(1), 6-7.  https://doi.org/10.59942/2995-9063.1028 
  • Kirby, M. (2024). [Review of Slow down: The degrowth manifesto, by Kohei Saito]. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 10(2024), 227-229. https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/128/114 
  • Kirby, M., & Gorran Farkas, M. (2024). Leading and locked out: Academic community college librarianship. College & Research Libraries News, 85(5), 186-189. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.85.5.186 
  • Kirby, M. (2024). [Review of Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China, by T. S. K. Kong]. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2024.2308484  
  • Wacha, M., Kirby, M., Amaral, J., Jardine, E., Lacy, M., & Lyons, C. (2023). What’s missing? The role of community colleges in building a more inclusive institutional repository landscape. College & Research Libraries News, 84(4), 173-176. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.4.173 
  • Kirby, M. (2023). The limits of community: Wendell Berry, 
    books bans, and intellectual freedom as an individual right. Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, 8(1), 39-44. https://doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v8i1.7867 
  • Kirby, M. (2022). Emphasizing the economic: Nancy Fraser, the cultural-redistributive divide, and social justice’s PR crisis. Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, 7(3), 34-39. https://doi.org/10.5860/jifp.v7i3.7860 

Presentations

  • Kirby, M. (2025, January 9). Privacy audit [Workshop]. Ramapo Catskill Library System, Ramapo, NY, United States.  
  • Kirby, M. (2024, January 21). Promoting the Merritt Fund: Strategies and resources [Conference presentation]. LibLearnX, Baltimore, MD, United States. 
  • Kirby, M., & Patton, R. (2023, January 30). The intellectual freedom syllabus [Conference presentation]. LibLearnX, New Orleans, LA, United States.  
  • Kirby, M. (2022, November 1). LBSCI 711: Collection Development. [Seminar talk]. Queens College, Queens, NY, United States.
  • Kirby, M. (2022, October 21).  Beyond the traditional classroom: “One-Shot” OERs in library instruction sessions [Conference presentation]. Florida Association of College and Research Libraries Annual Conference, Tallahassee, FL, United States.  
  • Kirby, M. (2022, October 14). Beyond the traditional classroom: “One-Shot” OERs in library instruction sessions [Conference presentation]. SoTL @ CUNY Virtual Conference, New York, NY, United States. 

Grants, Awards, Fellowships

  • $700. KCTL’s Faculty Mentoring Fellowship on Promotion, 2024-2025. 
  • Professional Reassignment Leave in the Libraries, 2024. 
  • Law for Librarians Train the Trainer Workshop, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2024. 
  • $35,000. Alley-Young, G., Kirby, M., Furay, J. LGBTQIA+ Consortium, CUNY, 2024. 
  • $2,000. Alley-Young, G., Kirby, M., Furay, J. LGBTQIA+ Consortium, CUNY, 2023. 
  • $1,000. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning CITA Summer Institute Fellowship, CUNY, 2022.  
  • $500. Spring Open Pedagogy Fellowship, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, 2022.  
  • Emerging Leaders Program, American Library Association, 2022.