Comics and critical librarianship: reframing the narrative in academic libraries

The basics

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

Collecting

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 fixitya: 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

Organizing

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

Teaching

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

Reaching

Framing a narrative: critical use of comics in library exhibitions and programs / Gerald Natal and Jennifer Martinez Wormser

Comics in 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.