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Occupation librarian, teacher, academic Education Columbia University, Syracuse University, Long Island University | ||
Emily drabinski intersections with power critical teaching and the library catalogue
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, and winner of the Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year in 2015 for her article "Towards a Kairos of Library Instruction."
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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.
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.
She is co-chair of the Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium, along with Baharak Yousefi and Tara Robertson. She is co-editor of Critical Library Instruction: Theories & Methods with Maria T. Accardi and Alana Kumbier, and is on the editorial board of Radical Teacher.
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.
Research
Drabinski's research focuses on Queer Theory, library instruction and cataloging practice. She is also conducting research about reference services to incarcerated persons with Deborah Rabina.