Michael Kirby
Michael Kirby is an Assistant Professor/Metadata Librarian at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MLS from Queens College, the City University of New York and was a 2022 ALA Emerging Leader. He served as a Director-at-Large for the Intellectual Freedom Round Table from 2022-2024.
Contact
Michael.Kirby@kbcc.cuny.edu
Education
- MLS Queens College, CUNY
- MA The Graduate Center, CUNY, Liberal Studies
- BA Brooklyn College, CUNY, Philosophy
Positions
Assistant Professor, Library, Kingsborough Community College
Recent Publications
- Kirby, M. (Forthcoming). Standards complaint: ACRL, CUNY, and faculty status for librarians. Inhospitable: the lived experiences of librarians.
- Kirby, M. (2025). [Review of Digital degrowth: Technology in the age of survival]. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 11(2025), 33-35. https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/129/118
- Kirby, M. (2025). Bibliographic instruction and the need for “librarian-first” OER repositories. In K. Casey & J. Pinkley (Eds.), Community college library: Collections and technical services (pp. 151-158). Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/kb_pubs/264/
- Kirby, M. (2024). The intellectual freedom syllabus. In C. Bishop & W. Doucette (Eds.), “Our community chimes in.” Journal of Graduate Librarianship, 2(1), 6-7. https://doi.org/10.59942/2995-9063.1028
- Kirby, M. (2024). [Review of Slow down: The degrowth manifesto, by Kohei Saito]. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 10(2024), 227-229. https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/128/114
- Kirby, M., & Gorran Farkas, M. (2024). Leading and locked out: Academic community college librarianship. College & Research Libraries News, 85(5), 186-189. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.85.5.186
Recent Presentations
- Kirby, M. (2025, January 9). Privacy audit [Workshop]. Ramapo Catskill Library System, Ramapo, NY, United States.
- Kirby, M. (2024, January 21). Promoting the Merritt Fund: Strategies and resources [Conference presentation]. LibLearnX, Baltimore, MD, United States.
- Kirby, M., & Patton, R. (2023, January 30). The intellectual freedom syllabus [Conference presentation]. LibLearnX, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Grants, Awards, Fellowships
- $700. KCTL’s Faculty Mentoring Fellowship on Promotion, 2024-2025.
- Professional Reassignment Leave in the Libraries, 2024.
- Law for Librarians Train the Trainer Workshop, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2024.
- $35,000. Alley-Young, G., Kirby, M., Furay, J. LGBTQIA+ Consortium, CUNY, 2024.
- $2,000. Alley-Young, G., Kirby, M., Furay, J. LGBTQIA+ Consortium, CUNY, 2023.
- $1,000. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning CITA Summer Institute Fellowship, CUNY, 2022.
- $500. Spring Open Pedagogy Fellowship, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, 2022.
- Emerging Leaders Program, American Library Association, 2022.
