When the Master’s Tools are Strange Bedfellows: Navigating — and embracing — business information sources to advance labor and worker power
Presentation | Thursday, June 12th, 2025 | 1:15pm – 2:15pm EST
The rise of Strategic Corporate Research training in university labor education programs presents collaborative opportunities for libraries to facilitate access and training in business information sources. Librarians seeking to illuminate restrictive and oppressive aspects of the information economy and provide viable alternatives to corporate information products may recoil from traditional sources for business intelligence that are largely accessed via expensive databases and other products primarily designed for corporate use, but must seize the opportunity to contribute to these subversive programs that utilize the information tools of global capital to curtail, if not destroy, capitalism, and advance worker power.
[This discussion will be recorded.]
Presenter: Aliqae Geraci
Aliqae Geraci is the Critical Pedagogy Librarian/Labor & Urban Studies Librarian and Asst. Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library, where she coordinates library instruction and is liaison to the Urban Education doctoral program and the School of Labor & Urban Studies. Aliqae has a BA in Economics and Labor Studies from Empire State College, an MS in Library and Information Science from Long Island University, and an MA in Labor Studies from the CUNY Murphy Institute (now School of Labor and Urban Studies). Aliqae previously served as Director of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University, Assistant Director for the Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University, as a research analyst for AFSCME District Council 37, and as a public librarian in Queens. Aliqae’s research interests encompass the documentation of labor and social movements and their information needs, as well as labor and employment relations in libraries, higher education, and cultural institutions.