Well, I’ve been invited to teach our doctoral seminar in Critical Information Studies again this coming spring. I’m looking forward to it as an opportunity to meet and work with our current PhD. students but I’m also a little worried about the syllabus, since I last taught it in 2024. Back then, not everything fell under the rubric of critical information studies, but now it seems that everything does, given the world today. On the other hand, it should be a fascinating semester!
About THIS SITE
This site is intended to provide additional information related to my book Keywords In and Out of Context, published in Springer’s Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services series.
I am Betsy Van der Veer Martens, professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Library & Information Studies, and my most recent article, “Libraries as Immortalities: Cultural Constructions and Collections,” will appear in Information & Culture in 2027.
