Collaborative Librarianship Volume 11 Issue 2 Article 5 7-26-2019 Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration through Critical Librarianship Adrienne Gosselin Cleveland State University,
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[email protected]. Gosselin & Goodsett: Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration From the Field Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration through Critical Librarianship Adrienne Gosselin (
[email protected]) Associate Professor, English, Cleveland State University Mandi Goodsett (
[email protected]) Performing Arts and Humanities Librarian, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University Abstract Through the lens of critical librarianship, librarians are becoming increasingly involved in social justice, civic engagement, and human rights issues. This paper examines the collaboration between a subject li- brarian and a faculty member in an assignment that engaged in Public Sphere Pedagogy (PSP), a teaching strategy with the goal of increasing students’ sense of civic agency and personal and social responsibility by connecting their classwork to public arenas; and project-based learning, wherein students develop a question to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge, which they share with a select audi- ence.