Andrea Patricia Baer is the History and Political Sciences Librarian at Rowan University. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington and a master’s in information sciences from the University of Tennessee. Andrea’s work in libraries and education is informed by her prior teaching experience in writing and literature and by her interests in writing studies, critical pedagogy, and reflective practice. She is the author of Information Literacy and Writing Studies in Conversation (2016).Robert Schroeder is Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, where he was a faculty member/librarian and AAUP union member. He was the liaison to the School of Education, the Urban Honors College, the University Studies (general education classes) in local high schools, and the McNair Scholar and Summer Bridge programs. His recent research interests include critical librarianship, Indigenous and autoethnographic research methods, and the ways (his) social class and (his) identity interact with (his experience of) the academy. Schroeder is coeditor of ACRL's The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship (2017).Ellysa Stern Cahoy is an education librarian and Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State University Libraries at University Park. A former children’s librarian and school library media specialist, Ms. Cahoy has published research and presented on information literacy, evidence-based librarianship, affective learning, and personal archiving. In 2014, she was awarded a $440,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the further exploration of faculty’s personal scholarly workflow practices and needs (building upon the work of a 2012 grant). Her article (coauthored with Smiljana Antonijevic), “Personal Library Curation: An Ethnographic Study of Scholars’ Information Practices,” received the 2014 Best Article Award from the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. Ms. Cahoy is a past chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section and in 2013 received the Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award.

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• Foreword — Jonathan CopeIntroduction — Andrea Baer, Ellysa Stern Cahoy, and Robert SchroederChapter 1. Creating Meaningful Engagement in Academic Libraries Using Principles of Intergroup Dialogue — Ione T. DamascoChapter 2. Reflective Dialogue across Differences in Libraries — Kelly McElroy and Lindsay MarlowChapter 3. Confronting the Limits of Dialogue: Charlottesville, 2017 — Abby Flanigan, Dave Ghamandi, Phylissa Mitchell, and Erin PappasChapter 4. What It Means to Be Out: Queer, Trans, and Gender Nonconforming Identities in Library Work — Zoe Fisher, Stephen Krueger, Robin Goodfellow Malamud, and Ericka PatilloChapter 5. “You Shall Listen to All Sides and Filter Them from Yourself”: Information Literacy and “Post-truth” Skepticism — Christopher A. Sweet, Jeremy L. Shermak, and Troy A. SwansonChapter 6. Sociology of Information Disorder: An Annotated Syllabus for Informed Citizens — Hailey MooneyChapter 7. Climate Change Conversations in Libraries (A Sabbatical Training Adventure) — Madeleine CharneyChapter 8. Not Tolerating Intolerance: Unpacking Critical Pedagogy in Classrooms and Conferences — Spencer Brayton and Natasha CaseyChapter 9. “TRUTH Always Wins”: Dispatches from the Information War — Sarah Hartman-CaverlyChapter 10. Between Accession and Secession: Political Mayhem and Archival Transparency in Charleston, South Carolina — Aaisha Haykal, Barrye Brown, and Mary Jo FairchildChapter 11. Red Shirts and Citizens’ Councils: Special Collections and Information Literacy in the College Classroom — Nathan SaundersChapter 12. “The Earth Is Flat” and Other Thresholds: A Critically Reflective Cross-disciplinary Conversation in the Post-truth Era — Sara D. Miller, Gabriel J. Ording, Eric D. Tans, and Claudia E. VergaraChapter 13. The John Oliver Effect: Using Political Satire to Encourage Critical-Thinking Skills in Information Literacy Instruction — Sebastian KrutkowskiChapter 14. Indignation in Political Discourse: Thoughts toward an Information Literacy Curriculum — Mark LenkerChapter 15. No Such Thing as Neutral: Rethinking Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach in a Time of “Post-truth” — Holly Luetkenhaus, Cristina Colquhoun, and Matt UpsonChapter 16. Open Educational Practices and Reflective Dialogue: The Role of the Framework for Information Literacy — Craig Gibson and Trudi E. JacobsonAbout the Authors

Andrea Patricia Baer is the History and Political Sciences Librarian at Rowan University. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington and a master’s in information sciences from the University of Tennessee. Andrea’s work in libraries and education is informed by her prior teaching experience in writing and literature and by her interests in writing studies, critical pedagogy, and reflective practice. She is the author of Information Literacy and Writing Studies in Conversation (2016).Robert Schroeder is Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, where he was a faculty member/librarian and AAUP union member. He was the liaison to the School of Education, the Urban Honors College, the University Studies (general education classes) in local high schools, and the McNair Scholar and Summer Bridge programs. His recent research interests include critical librarianship, Indigenous and autoethnographic research methods, and the ways (his) social class and (his) identity interact with (his experience of) the academy. Schroeder is coeditor of ACRL's The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship (2017).Ellysa Stern Cahoy is an education librarian and Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State University Libraries at University Park. A former children’s librarian and school library media specialist, Ms. Cahoy has published research and presented on information literacy, evidence-based librarianship, affective learning, and personal archiving. In 2014, she was awarded a $440,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the further exploration of faculty’s personal scholarly workflow practices and needs (building upon the work of a 2012 grant). Her article (coauthored with Smiljana Antonijevic), “Personal Library Curation: An Ethnographic Study of Scholars’ Information Practices,” received the 2014 Best Article Award from the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. Ms. Cahoy is a past chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section and in 2013 received the Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award.

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• Foreword — Jonathan CopeIntroduction — Andrea Baer, Ellysa Stern Cahoy, and Robert SchroederChapter 1. Creating Meaningful Engagement in Academic Libraries Using Principles of Intergroup Dialogue — Ione T. DamascoChapter 2. Reflective Dialogue across Differences in Libraries — Kelly McElroy and Lindsay MarlowChapter 3. Confronting the Limits of Dialogue: Charlottesville, 2017 — Abby Flanigan, Dave Ghamandi, Phylissa Mitchell, and Erin PappasChapter 4. What It Means to Be Out: Queer, Trans, and Gender Nonconforming Identities in Library Work — Zoe Fisher, Stephen Krueger, Robin Goodfellow Malamud, and Ericka PatilloChapter 5. “You Shall Listen to All Sides and Filter Them from Yourself”: Information Literacy and “Post-truth” Skepticism — Christopher A. Sweet, Jeremy L. Shermak, and Troy A. SwansonChapter 6. Sociology of Information Disorder: An Annotated Syllabus for Informed Citizens — Hailey MooneyChapter 7. Climate Change Conversations in Libraries (A Sabbatical Training Adventure) — Madeleine CharneyChapter 8. Not Tolerating Intolerance: Unpacking Critical Pedagogy in Classrooms and Conferences — Spencer Brayton and Natasha CaseyChapter 9. “TRUTH Always Wins”: Dispatches from the Information War — Sarah Hartman-CaverlyChapter 10. Between Accession and Secession: Political Mayhem and Archival Transparency in Charleston, South Carolina — Aaisha Haykal, Barrye Brown, and Mary Jo FairchildChapter 11. Red Shirts and Citizens’ Councils: Special Collections and Information Literacy in the College Classroom — Nathan SaundersChapter 12. “The Earth Is Flat” and Other Thresholds: A Critically Reflective Cross-disciplinary Conversation in the Post-truth Era — Sara D. Miller, Gabriel J. Ording, Eric D. Tans, and Claudia E. VergaraChapter 13. The John Oliver Effect: Using Political Satire to Encourage Critical-Thinking Skills in Information Literacy Instruction — Sebastian KrutkowskiChapter 14. Indignation in Political Discourse: Thoughts toward an Information Literacy Curriculum — Mark LenkerChapter 15. No Such Thing as Neutral: Rethinking Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach in a Time of “Post-truth” — Holly Luetkenhaus, Cristina Colquhoun, and Matt UpsonChapter 16. Open Educational Practices and Reflective Dialogue: The Role of the Framework for Information Literacy — Craig Gibson and Trudi E. JacobsonAbout the Authors