Profile

Daniel Clarkson Fisher (he/him/his) is a librarian residing on the traditional territories of the Anishnaabe Peoples and the Haudenosaunee Peoples, which are covered by the Upper Canada Treaties. He holds an MLIS from Western University, and was the recipient of the 2022 Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize from the Progressive Librarians Guild.

You can find him elsewhere online at the Internet Archive,  Open Library, and Bookshop.org. He can also be reached by email at danielclarksonfisher at duck dot com.

• Recent Publications
  • "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 Librarian, forthcoming.
  • 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.
  • "On Privacy, the Card Catalog, and Wendell Berry", SRRT Newsletter, Issue 224, January 2024.
  • "The 7 Best Library Podcasts", Podcast Review, September 28, 2022.
  • Review of Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach (2019) by Sam Popowich, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, June 6, 2022.

• Selected Presentations
  • "A Promised (But Ultimately Unreachable) Land," 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.