METRO’s Reference and Instruction Interest Group invites you to participate in a June symposium on Critical Pedagogy. This symposium will be held fully online.

The 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium (CPS), now in its 3rd iteration since 2021, seeks to provide space for library workers and information professionals of all kinds to collaborate in critical pedagogical thought and critical practice. We want to build community, and to imagine new ways of doing our work by naming and dismantling oppressive systems and imagining new worlds. In this biennial symposium, our overarching aim is to collaborate in growing creative, generous, and mutually supportive intersectional and anti-oppressive work within Library and Information Science (LIS) so that we hone a sharp language for interrogating and dismantling inequities of all kinds and for doing justice work together. 

2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium 
A FREE & VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM

The 2025 Symposium will examine global barriers and their impact on library and archival pedagogy. This year’s Symposium is inspired by the pedagogies and practices of those thinking about colonialism, imperialism, transnationalism, epistemic injustice, and other frameworks for Decentering the West. With this in mind, we have created three broad tracks through which to consider Decentering the West in our critical pedagogy and practice.

Check this website for updates including our Call for Proposals, Code of Conduct, and our 2025 co-sponsors and team library workers in action.

You can reach the team at: criticallibrarysymposium@gmail.com.