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- About the authors
Academic librarianship is due for a major paradigm shift in response to the existential threats facing the library profession and higher education, and library workers are leading this shift with new ideas about community, feminism, education, and social change.
The Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium: Reflections, Revisions, and New Works collects expanded and updated presentations given at the Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium (CLAPS) held biennially at the University of Arizona Libraries. This anthology provides a toolkit for critical library pedagogy that recognizes how knowledge is created within historical and deeply politicized contexts. Authors working in library or disciplinary teaching fields explore intersections between information literacy and critical pedagogy and provide current thinking, assessment, and reflection on their practices of teaching students how to recognize and critique the oppressive power structures inherent in educational systems. The work done by librarians is analyzed to reveal the socioeconomic frameworks that drive the costs of our labor.
Divided into five parts—Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom, Feminist Library Practices, The Labor of Librarianship, Practices of Care, and Community Archives—chapters include explorations of the advent of neoliberalism in higher education, social justice, white fragility, supporting neurodivergence in education, and disability-rights activism. They use lenses such as queer, intersectional, feminist, and critical race theory to examine subjects, and include practices for sustainable teaching, facilitating dialogue in the classroom, and using tools such as user experience or empathic design. The Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium offers ways to incorporate critical pedagogy theory into your own practices as educators, both within the library and in higher education in general.
Introduction
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
Siân 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