Carolyn Caffrey Gardner
Title: Information Literacy Coordinator / Liaison Librarian
Department: Library
Areas of Expertise
Information literacy; assessment; academic libraries; open access publishing; information seeking behavior; critical pedagogy
Professional Background
Her scholarship focuses on people’s relationship to information, whether that is exploring information seeking behavior or analyzing information literacy programs. She has researched the phenomenon of illicit research article sharing through #icanhazpdf and SciHub and the implications for information access. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as College & Research Libraries and Reference Services Review. More recently her work is exploring the application of critical pedagogy to library instruction environments and has appeared in the book, Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook.
Languages
English
Education
M.L.S, Indiana University Bloomington
B.A., University of CA, Santa Cruz
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Contact
Email Address: cgardner@csudh.edu
Office: (310) 243-3072
Contact Preference: Email
