Comics and critical librarianship : reframing the narrative in academic libraries

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Comic collections have existed in academic institutions for over fifty years. Libraries have taken a variety of approaches to address differing philosophies and needs for their collections, but discourse has typically focused on the practical concerns of management and organization, considering the best ways to collect, catalog, shelve, and share comic books and trades, graphic novels, and more. As a growing body of practice and scholarship, crit...

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ISBN:

9781634000802

Description:

viii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Beyond representation: addressing the role of empathy through diversity in graphic narratives / Kamaria Hatcher
The work of critical sequential art selection in academic libraries / Elliott Kuecker and Brad Hawley
Making use of the white space: the Mazinbiige Indigenous Graphic Novel Collection at the University of Manitoba / Camille Callison, Niigaanwewidam Sinclair, and Greg Bak
Black to the future: a librarian's guide to building an Afrofuturist comics and graphic novels collection / Kai Alexis Smith and Aisha Conner-Gaten
Challenging "stereotypes and fixity": African American comic books in the academic archive / Brian Flota
Building a South Asian comics collection / Mara L. Thacker
Advocating for diversity: collecting comics to reflect our students / Breanne Crumpton, Michelle Mitchell, Alva Jones Jr., and Jenay Solomon
Comics in special collections: purposeful collection development for promoting inclusive history / Caitlin McGurk and Jenny E. Robb
Apocalyptic comics, women detectives, and the many faces of Batgirl: Creating more inclusive comic records through flexible cataloging practices / Liz Adams and Rich Murray
Specter of censorship: comics in academic library leisure reading collections / Andrew Wang
The extraordinary result of doing something ordinary / Kelly McElroy
Visualizing arguments: Constructing comics to unpack scholarly texts / Samantha Kirk and Patricia Guardiola
Comics as social movement primary sources: The consciousness-raising comics of the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste / David Woken
The value of nonfiction comics for critical information literacy instruction / Carly Diab
Excavating visual texts: information literacy, critical thinking, and the graphic novel in the crime fiction classroom / Susanne F. Paterson and Carolyn White Gamtso
Drawing them in: Critical use of comics in library exhibitions and programs / Gerald Natal and Jennifer Martinez Wormser
Comics in the clinic / Kathryn M. Houk, Michelle P. Green, Matthew Noe, and Ariel Pomputius
Feminist curating with Our comics, Ourselves / Jan Descartes and Monica M. Johnson
Minicomics workshops and comic arts fairs to empower our communities / Lindsay Gibb

LCCN:

2018060482

Control Number:

2816369

Other Authors:

Grimm, Stephanie, 1983- editor
Piepmeier, Olivia, editor

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