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Hello, and thank you for visiting my website! My name is Danny, and I am a third-generation librarian living and working on the traditional territories of the Huron Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabeg peoples, which are covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties. I hold an MLIS from Western University and received the 2022 Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize from the Progressive Librarians Guild. In addition, my writing has appeared in the Journal of Radical Librarianship and the American Library Association's SRRT (Social Responsibilities Round Table) Newsletter among other publications.
You can download my full CV here and email me at danielclarksonfisher at duck dot com.
Elsewhere online: Bookshop.org | ALA Connect | LinkedIn | The Internet Archive | Open Library
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- "The Neutrality Horcrux: How the Persistent Fallacy of Political Neutrality Impedes Public Library Responses to J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Activism" in Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter (Library Juice Press, forthcoming)
- "What a Recent Ta-Nehisi Coates Lecture Offers the 'Intellectual Freedom vs. Social Responsibility' Debate", Journal of Radical Librarianship, Vol. 10, July 22, 2024
- "On Privacy, the Card Catalog, and Wendell Berry", SRRT Newsletter, Issue #224, January 2024
- Review of On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the U.S. (2023) by James LaRue, Journal of Radical Librarianship, Volume 10, February 28, 2024
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- "Co-Starring Your Local Library: Insights from Documenting Library Appearances in Film," Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference 2026, January 28-February 1, 2026 (forthcoming)
- Poster Presentation: "Library Book Bikes: Possibilities and Problems", Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference 2025, January 31, 2025
- "A Promised (But Ultimately Unreachable) Land: The Fallacy of 'Political Neutrality' Exemplified by Fmr. U.S. President Barack Obama's Appearance at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition", Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG) Meeting, 2022 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2022
- Moderator, "An Evening with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman", Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA, January 10, 2013
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NOTE: This website is set in "Dana Library Hand" (version 1.3), a public domain font created by Margo Burns to replicate the "penmanship style for librarians" that was devised by John Cotton Dana (1856-1929) and expounded upon in his book A Library Primer (1899).