Poetry as Knowledge in Librarianship draws on poetry to illustrate its role in library and information science professionals' intertwined personal and professional streams of life journeys.
The edited collection explores the power of poetry as a voice in transforming librarians lives and shaping their motivations, directions, choices, and actions at intertwined personal and professional nexus of intersection from all around the globe. Chapters provide an opportunity for librarians and information professionals worldwide to discuss the use of poetry and its transformational potential within and beyond the academy. The authors draw on the theoretical construct of voice as an instrument of self-consciousness, narrative development, storytelling, and discourse analysis.
IntroductionWhen Water Shapes Stone: Poetry as a Transformative Force
in Librarianship; Bharat Mehra and Vanessa Irvin
Section One. Poetic Reflections: Identity and Being in Librarianship
Chapter
1. Archival Affect: Understanding Louisville, Kentucky, Through
Images and Poems; Emma Beck and Cecilia Durbin
Chapter
2. Poetic Reflections: Navigating Immigration and Embracing
Professional Advocacy; Veronica Fu
Chapter
3. Elusivity: A Librarian's Praxis of Memory and Meaning; Vanessa
Irvin
Chapter
4. The Cost of Information Consumption Convenience; Michelle E.
Jones
Chapter
5. Library Verse: Poetic Reflections on Identity and Advocacy in LIS;
Hana Kim
Chapter
6. Diving into the Wreck: On Archiving and Queer Becoming; Caitlin
Matheis
Chapter
7. Audre Lorde, Parable of the Sower and the Poet-Librarian: Ensuring
Survival Through Community, Art, and Shared Knowledge; Princess Zuri McCann
Chapter
8. If Life Gives You Bananas, Make Mango Shake: Poetry to Survive,
Resist, Empower, and Transform; Bharat Mehra
Chapter
9. Dudley Randall: Librarian, Poet, Publisher, and Poet-Laureate;
Wendy Moore
Chapter
10. Annotations: Five Books that Made Me; Jasmyne Ray
Chapter
11. WIP: A Work in Progress or a Creative Endeavour that Has Stalled;
Rebecca Shaw
Chapter
12. Reading in the Stacks: Raising Poet-Librarians in The Poetry
Collection at the University at Buffalo; Jessica Shannon Smith
Chapter
13. O Time thy Pyramids: Cacophonies, Farragoes, and Incoherencies
in Librarianship and Creative Praxis; Christine Walde
Section Two. Poetic Research: Discourse and Becoming in Librarianship
Chapter
14. Poets in the Library: Teenagers as Creators of Poetry; Jennifer
Bartell Boykin
Chapter
15. Dwell in Possibility: Using Poetic Inquiry to Reveal the
Relational Wellbeing Potential of Shared Reading; Alison Brown
Chapter
16. Poet-in-Residence and Productive Frictions; Tommy Vinh Bui
Chapter
17. Enoch Soames: From Max Beerbohms Imagination to the British
Library; Maria Cristina Piumbato Innocentini Hayashi and Gabriel José
Innocentini Hayashi
Chapter
18. Connecting Infodemesnes by Poetic Osmosis; K. Lane
Chapter
19. Turning Words into Wisdom: Libraries Creative Power for Adapting
and Thriving in Different Times; Susan McLaine
Chapter
20. Poetic Explorations of Identity Through Education and
A/R/Tography: Automatic Writing as a Tool for Research and Visual Artistic
Creation; Teresa Colomina Molina and David López-Ruiz
Chapter
21. Healing Through Heritage: Personal Cultural Identity as the
Daughter of Immigrants; Vanessa Reyes
Chapter
22. Exploring Practitioner-Researcher Identity: A Personal Narrative
Inquiry Through Poetry and Metaphor; Rebecca Scott
Chapter
23. Childrens Poetry: A Rich, Untapped Genre for Library
Instruction; Sylvia G. Tag
Chapter
24. Poetry as a Strong Document; Tessa Withorn
Section Three. Poetic Knowledge: Inquiry and Praxis in Librarianship
Chapter
25. A Very, Very Particular Library - A Conceptual Kaleidoscope:
Between the Creation Laboratory and the Research Labyrinth; Diego Aldasoro
Chapter
26. Poetry as Inquiry: Reflecting on Power and Knowledge in LIS;
Sandy Yang
Chapter
27. The Shape of Not Knowing: Intellectual Sympathy, Negative
Capability, and Poetic Knowledge in Librarianship; Hailey Siracky
Bharat Mehra is Professor and EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice in the School of Library and Information Studies, College of Communication and Information Sciences, at the University of Alabama, USA.
Vanessa Irvin is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Master of Library Science Program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Professions of the College of Education at East Carolina University, USA.
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