Joel Burkholder

Reference and Instruction Librarian
Associate Librarian

Department Address

Glatfelter Library
1017 Edgecomb Avenue
York, PA 17403
Departmental Phone
717-771-4020 (department)
jmb7609@psu.edu

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