Deitering, Anne-Marie, Robert Schroeder, Richard Stoddart (eds.) The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-8892-3
Description
Autoethnography is a type of research that uses writing and self-examination to explore far-ranging cultural, political, and social issues through personal experience. In this collection, 21 academic librarians investigate aspects of what it means to be a librarian. Starting with a reflective examination of themselves, they each investigate questions of culture, values, and identity.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Barbara Fister
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Anne-Marie Deitering, Robert Schroeder, and Rick Stoddart
INTRODUCTION. Why Autoethnography?
Anne-Marie Deitering
CHAPTER 1. Admitting What I Don’t Know: An Autoethnographic Study of Teaching, Fear, and Uncertainty
Anna Esty
CHAPTER 2. Avoiding Autoethnography: Writing toward Burnout
Benjamin R. Harris
CHAPTER 3. Version Control
Sarah Hartman-Caverly
CHAPTER 4. Finding Boomer Harding: An Autoethnography about History, Librarianship, and
Reconnecting
Heidi LM Jacobs
CHAPTER 5. When Worlds Collide
Derrick Jefferson
CHAPTER 6. Looking through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative
La Loria Konata
CHAPTER 7. Cataloger’s Judgment and Cataloger’s Bias: On Lived Experience and Metadata Creation
Erin Leach
CHAPTER 8. Carving Out a Space: Ambiguity and Librarian Teacher Identity in the Academy
Janna Mattson, Maoria J. Kirker, Mary K. Oberlies, and Jason Byrd
CHAPTER 9. Away from the Library
David H. Michels
CHAPTER 10. Academic Rejection and Libraries
Emily Rogers
CHAPTER 11. You, She, I
An Autoethnographic Exploration through Noise
Michele R. Santamaría
CHAPTER 12. Many Hats, One Head: Considering Professional Identity in Academic Library Directorship
Maura A. Smale
CHAPTER 13. The Intersections of Art and Librarianship: “Filling in the Gaps”
Jolanda-Pieta (Joey) van Arnhem
CHAPTER 14. Librarian Origin Story
Mita Williams
CHAPTER 15. Evaluative Criteria for Autoethnographic Research: Who’s to Judge?
Robert Schroeder
CHAPTER 16. Shuffle the Cards, Save the Cat, and Eat the Cake
Rick Stoddart
