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Wade Bishop is a Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. He is the Director of Graduate Studies as well as the Research Data Management Certificate Coordinator.

Renate L. Chancellor is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). She is recipient of the 2014 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2012 ALISE Leadership Award. She is an affiliated faculty member with the Lender Center for Social Justice.

Joe Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College (CUNY), USA. He is a Mellon Fellow and a Google/ALA fellow in the Libraries Ready to Code Program, a founder of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), and on the advisory board of the ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellows program.

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A Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age: Constellation of Insanity fosters a platform for information scientists to engage in reflection and contemplation regarding the profound questions of our era. By drawing insights from pioneers in the field whose contributions were once marginalized or, in some instances, overlooked within the realm of information science, chapter authors strive to re/center the field's focal point. Chapter authors draw from a diverse array of frameworks including critical theory, deconstruction, queer theory, borderlands, among others. What sets this book apart is its direct confrontation of the status quo and aggressively re/claims intellectual space for "others". This is the only book to critique the entire discipline of Information Science from as many angles as possible in one volume and as far outside of the traditional organizations.