Joel Burkholder
Department Address
1017 Edgecomb Avenue
York, PA 17403

Research Interests
Publications
Rhetorical reinventions: Rethinking research processes and information practices to deepen our pedagogy
We Are What We Maintain—Including Ourselves: Infrastructure and Interdependence of Library Work in the Midst of Disruption, Library Philosophy & Practice, 2025
Manufactured Panic, Real Consequences: Why Academic Librarians Must Stand with Public and School Libraries, College and Research Libraries News, 2024
Breaking down bias: A practical framework for the systematic evaluation of source bias, Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
Interpreting the conventions of scholarship: Rhetorical implications of the acrl framework, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
Beyond the checklist: Using rhetorical analysis to evaluate sources as social acts, 2012
Redefining sources as social acts: Genre theory in information literacy instruction, Library Philosophy and Practice, 2010
From the archives: Reading Stimson's mail, Cryptologia, 2007
Other Publications
Chapters
Fake news, real policy: How the blurring of information genres may affect the creation of health care policies: Teaching About “Fake News”: Lesson Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021
Manufacturing a context: Rhetorical implications of standalone critical information literacy courses, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019
Building an informed citizenry: Information literacy, first-year writing and the civic goals of education, Neal-Schuman, 2007
Comment/Debates
From the shelves and into the world imagining information literacy in the everyday, College and Research Libraries News, 2021
Others
A space for innovation: Proposing a maintenance schema for library work, Journal of New Librarianship, 2020
What’s in the sauce? Using rhetorical analysis to differentiate source types, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020