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.
Contact
Positions
Assistant Professor, Library, CUNY Kingsborough Community College
Publications
- Kirby, M. (2025). [Review of Platform power and libraries, edited by Christine F. Smith]. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 11(2025), 180-182. https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/148
- Kirby, M. (2025). The bib record in the age of digital reproduction. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 11(2025), 146-158. https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/135
- 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). [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
