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Filling in the Gaps: Using Zines to Amplify the Voices of People Who Are Silenced in Academic Research
The Feminist Reference Desk: Concepts, Critiques, and Conversations (2015)
  • Dawn Stahura, Salem State University
Abstract
Feminist pedagogy employs strategies such as collaborative learning, valuing experiential knowledge, employing consciousness-raising about sexism and other forms of oppression, and destabilizing the power hierarchies of the traditional classroom. Ultimately, feminist library instruction seeks to empower learners to be both critical thinkers and critical actors who are motivated and prepared to bring about social change. The concept of feminist pedagogy has recently energized current conversations on library instruction, so it is fitting and timely to consider how feminism might intersect with another vital student-centered service the academic library provides: the reference desk. Inspired by the ideas, possibilities, and discussions set in motion by Maria T. Accardi’s Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction (2013), this edited collection continues these conversations by considering how feminist strategies and philosophies might reshape, invigorate, and critique approaches to reference services. In short, this collection will provide critical and thought-provoking explorations of how academic librarians might rethink central reference concepts and services, from the reference interview, to the reference collection, to the staffing of the reference desk itself, from a feminist perspective.
Publication Date
October, 2015
Editor
Maria T. Accardi
Publisher
Library Juice Press
Series
Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies
ISBN
978-1-63400-018-5
Citation Information
Dawn Stahura. "Filling in the Gaps: Using Zines to Amplify the Voices of People Who Are Silenced in Academic Research" SacramentoThe Feminist Reference Desk: Concepts, Critiques, and Conversations (2015) p. 175 - 187
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dawn-stahura/4/