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 editor of the Library Juice Press Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies. 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): 94–111. JSTOR 10.1086/669547.

References

  1. ↑ Fialkoff, Francine. "Movers & Shakers 2014". Library Journal. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Ollis, Chase. "Drabinski receives 2015 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award". American Library Association. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Drabinski, Emily. "Emily Drabinski CV". Emily Drabinski. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Emily Drabinski". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium". Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods". Library Juice Press. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Editorial Team". Radical Teacher. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  8. ↑ "Classes Start at LIU Brooklyn on September 7—but Faculty Are Locked Out". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  9. ↑ "What led to the LIU lockout?". SocialistWorker.org. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
  10. ↑ "Emily Drabinski". Google Scholar. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  11. ↑ Kutner, Max. "With no Google, the Incarcerated Wait for the Mail". Newsweek. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
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