Justin's librarian philosophy is rooted in relational practices and building communities and connections, doing meaningful work by modelling collegial and hard-working practices, a commitment to lifelong learning, and supporting others in the field of librarianship and beyond.
To read his full librarian philosophy, please see here.
Justin is an Assistant Librarian in the Sciences Division. He is the liaison librarian for Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy, and Medical Physics. He graduated with his MLIS from the University of Alberta in 2019. Previously he graduated with his Library & Information Technology diploma in 2013 from Red River College.
His research interests include relational practices and building community in academic libraries, researcher profiles and persistent identifiers at the University of Manitoba, in addition to a new project exploring authorship and contributorship in research.
Since the summer of 2022, he's been a regular contributor to ACRLog, a blog by and for academic librarians. See more: https://acrlog.org/author/jfuhr/
How-To Peer Review: http://bit.ly/FuhrPeerReview
Searching in Web of Science: https://bit.ly/WOSW23
Power, Profit, and Privilege: Navigating Academic Publishing: https://bit.ly/acadpubworkshop
Reflective Practice in Teaching & Research: https://bit.ly/FuhrReflectionW22
Fuhr, J. (2023). Personal librarian philosophies: Discovering meaning in what we do. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 23(2). Preprint available here
Fuhr, J. & Popowich, E. (2022). Relational practice of Canadian academic librarians: Exploratory content analysis using relational-cultural theory. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102593.
Fuhr, J. (2022). Developing data services skills in academic libraries. College & Research Libraries, 83(3), 474-502. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.83.3.474