Marilyn R. Pukkila is Head of Instructional Services at the Colby College Libraries, where she also teaches courses on J.R.R. Tolkien, women in myth and fairy tale, contemporary Witchcraft, and religious responses to Harry Potter. Her interests include information fluency and library instruction, ethnographic methods of studying students, scholarly communication (including open access and authors' rights), and Pagan scholarship.
Libraries and Instruction
Take a Deep Breath: On Not Losing the Turtle in the Technology, Journal of Maine Education (2008)
Understanding media messages and selecting worthwhile sources of information require the ability to analyze and...
The Other Side of the Podium: Student Information Needs from Inside the Classroom, College & Research Libraries News (2006)
A few things the author learned about students and research when she audited classes on...
Pagan Scholarship
Review of The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Paganism edited by Shelley Rabinovitch and James Lewis, Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies (2004)
Feminist Spiritualities: A Brief Overview, Choice Magazine (1999)
A bibliographic essay on the early beginnings of feminist spirituality literature, from the 1960s to...
The Literature of Contemporary Witchcraft: Formalists, Femininsts, and Free Spirits, Choice Magazine (1999)
A bibliographic essay on the writings of contemporary Witchcraft, from the late 1890s to 1998.
Research Guides
Anthropology Research Guide (2008)
This is the LibGuide that I maintain to assist students and faculty with their research...