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.
Kirby, M. (2025). [Review of The commune form: The transformation of everyday life, by Kristin Ross]. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 23(1): 149-151. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v23i1.1631
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., & 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