Brianna Limas, MLIS

Outreach Librarian

K12 Library Liaison, EOP Bridge Liaison, Liaison to Geography and Recreation & Tourism Management Departments, Coordinator of Outreach Services

Duties and Responsibilities

• Campus and community outreach, library programming
• Reference services and research consultation
• Library instruction and library visit coordination for K12 students
• Library liaison and support for the EOP Bridge program
• Liaison, library support and instruction, and collection development for the following academic departments:
  • Geography
  • Recreation & Tourism Management
• I also serve on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and am a College Liaison for the Office of Community Engagement

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LibGuides & Blogs

• Geography 
• Recreation & Tourism Management
• Resources for High School Students
• Resources for EOP Bridge
• Cited at the Library Blog

Research Interests & Praxis

• Equity, justice, and accessibility in librarianship and academic libraries
  • Deconstructing epistemic supremacy
• Open education, open access, and open educational resources (OER)
• Critical information literacy and information literacy instruction
  • ACRL Framework
  • Understanding misinformation and disinformation
  • Developing metaliteracy and metacognitive skills
• Critical and liberatory pedagogies, community building, and popular education
• Emerging technologies
• Serving the whole student, understanding everyday life information needs and behaviors
• Storytelling, narrative, and literature:
  • Speculative fiction, American fiction outside the canon, queer fiction, poetry, critical theory, digital storytelling
• Intersections of spirituality, community, and social justice

Professional Institutes & Affiliations

• Black, Brown, and Queer (BBQ+) Pedagogy Lab, Summer 2021
• We Here Community School
  • Abolition and Black feminisms, 2021
  • Disability justice, 2022
  • Glitched Out (Race and technology), 2023
• ALA Spectrum Scholar, 2019-20 cohort; 2022 institute
• REFORMA, OC Chapter (2019-current)
  • Current OC Chapter president

Education

• Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS), SJSU iSchool, 2021
• Bachelors in Storytelling and Spirituality, Whittier College, 2017
• Prior education at New York University (2007-2010), Rio Hondo Community College (2012-2015)