Emily Drabinski
| Emily Drabinski | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University, Syracuse University, Long Island University |
| Occupation | librarian, teacher, academic |
Emily Drabinski is an academic librarian, author and teacher working in New York City. She holds the position of Coordinator of Library Instruction at Long Island University, Brooklyn, and is a part-time faculty member at Pratt Institute's School of Information. She was a 2014 Library Journal Mover & Shaker Advocate,[1] and winner of the Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year in 2015 for her article "Towards a Kairos of Library Instruction."[2]
Education
Drabinski earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University in 1997. In 2003 she received a Master's of Library Science from Syracuse University, and Master of Arts in Composition and rhetoric from LIU Brooklyn in 2011.[3]
Career
Drabinski holds a faculty librarian position at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, where she is the Coordinator of Library Instruction. She also is a part-time faculty member at the Pratt School of Information, where she teaches the required reference librarianship course.[4]
She is co-chair of the Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium, along with Baharak Yousefi and Tara Robertson.[5] She is co-editor of Critical Library Instruction: Theories & Methods with Maria T. Accardi and Alana Kumbier,[6] and is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher.[7]
Drabinski is the secretary of the Long Island University Faculty Federation and participated actively in the protest by faculty and students at Long Island University - Brooklyn over a lockout associated with faculty contract negotiations.[8][9]
Research
Drabinski's research focuses on Queer Theory, library instruction and cataloging practice.[10] She is also conducting research about reference services to incarcerated persons with Deborah Rabina.[11]
Selected publications
- Drabinski, Emily (September 2014). "Towards a Kairos of Library Instruction". The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 40 (5): 480–485. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.06.002.
- Billey, Amber; Drabinski, Emily; Roberto, K. R. (April 2014). "What's Gender Got to Do with It? A Critique of RDA 9.7". Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 52 (4): 412–421. doi:10.1080/01639374.2014.882465.
- Drabinski, Emily (April 2013). "Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction". The Library Quarterly. 83 (2): 94–11. JSTOR 10.1086/669547.
References
- ↑ Fialkoff, Francine. "Movers & Shakers 2014". Library Journal. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ Ollis, Chase. "Drabinski receives 2015 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award". American Library Association. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ Drabinski, Emily. "Emily Drabinski CV". Emily Drabinski. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ "Emily Drabinski". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ "Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium". Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ "Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods". Library Juice Press. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ "Editorial Team". Radical Teacher. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ "Classes Start at LIU Brooklyn on September 7—but Faculty Are Locked Out". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- ↑ "What led to the LIU lockout?". SocialistWorker.org. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
- ↑ "Emily Drabinksi". Google Scholar. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ↑ Kutner, Max. "With no Google, the Incarcerated Wait for the Mail". Newsweek. Retrieved 27 February 2016.