Description
Book SynopsisThis anthology provides a toolkit for critical library pedagogy that recognizes how knowledge is created within historical and deeply politicized contexts. Contributors explore intersections between information literacy and critical pedagogy and provide current thinking, assessment, and reflection.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Walking the Long Road: Transforming Library Spaces for Liberation
Yvonne Mery and Anthony Sanchez
Part I: Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom
Chapter 1
Facilitation Skills for Critical Library Instruction
Amy Gilgan
Chapter 2
Anti-ableism in Library Instruction: Considerations for Neurodivergent Students
Paige Crowl and Elizabeth C. Novosel
Chapter 3
Information Studies for Social Justice: Praxis in an Undergraduate Course
Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins
Part II: Feminist Library Practices
Chapter 4
What Is Authority? A Feminist Investigation of Personal Experience as Knowledge in Student Research and Writing
Martinique Hallerduff and Hannah Carlton
Chapter 5
Situated Data: Feminist Epistemology and Data Curation
Scout Calvert
Part III: The Labor of Librarianship
Chapter 6
Acting “As If”: Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment, and Labor
Rafia Mirza, Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale
Chapter 7
Beyond Sustainability and Self-Care
Veronica Arellano Douglas, Emily Deal, and Carolina Hernandez
Part IV: Practices of Care
Chapter 8
Academic Library Labor as Community Care Work
Si n Evans and Amanda Meeks
Chapter 9
A Practice of Connection: Applying Relational-Cultural Theory to Librarianship
Anastasia Chiu, Veronica Arellano Douglas, Joanna Gadsby, Alana Kumbier, and Lalitha Nataraj
Part V: Community Archives
Chapter 10
Community-Based Archives and Their Pedagogies
Jamie A. Lee, Kristen Suagee-Beauduy (Cherokee Nation), and Samantha Montes
About the Editors
About the Authors
