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Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (she/her) is an interdisciplinary librarian and scholar who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly. Her work has appeared in Exploring Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners, Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Communications in Information Literacy, College & Research Libraries, and Library Trends. Most notably, she authored the widely cited “The Legacy of Lady Bountiful: White Women in the Library” (2016) and edited Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science (2017). She is currently exploring the intersections of reproductive health and information work with attention to the invisible labor that occurs around “reproductive failure,” and she is co-editing Information, Power, and Reproductive Health (expected 2025). Gina is a board member for the Network of the National Library of Medicine's Iowa Stakeholder Advisory Group.

Areas of Responsibility

Kistle Science Library, Reference and Instruction

Consulting Areas

Biology; Biological Chemistry; Chemistry; Computer Science; Environmental Studies; Mathematics; Neuroscience; Physics; Psychology; Science, Medicine & Society; Statistics

Selected Publications

Schlesselman-Tarango, G., Moore, A. A., & Rau, R. (Eds.) (Forthcoming). . Library Juice Press.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (Invited contribution). (Forthcoming). “Whiteness.” In cline, n., & López-McKnight, J. R. (Eds.), Keywords in (critical) library information science/studies. MIT Press.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G., Edgerton, J., Pryor, E., & Valencia, R. (2023). . Communications in Information Literacy 17(2), 510-529.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G., & Becerra, M. (Invited contribution). (2022). College & Research Libraries 84(5), 844-847.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G., & Tarango, M. (Invited contribution). (2020). . Library Trends 68(3), 390-408.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (2019). : An 
autoethnography. Library Trends 67(3), 436-454.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (Ed.) (2017). Library Juice Press.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (2017). . Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 12(1).

Forbes, C., Schlesselman-Tarango, G., & Keeran, P. (2017). . College & Research Libraries 78(3), 297-313.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (2016). . Library Trends 64(4), 667-686.