Nicole Pagowsky is Curriculum & Pedagogy Librarian at the University of Arizona, specializing in library instruction programs and critical information literacy. Since 2015, she has been adjunct faculty with the iSchool where she helped develop the graduate certificate: Instruction & Teaching for Librarians and Information Professionals; and designed / teaches LIS 581 Information Literacy Pedagogy.
Nicole is the 2021 recipient of the ACRL-IS Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, recognizing her impactful contributions to the field in library instruction and critical librarianship. As of 2022 after nomination, she was elected to ACRL-IS Vice-Chair/Chair-elect for 2022-2025.
Nicole also holds a second Master's in Instructional Design, and as of 2021, she is pursing a PhD through the iSchool with an expected Spring ‘26 graduation.
Most recent news
Big Ten Academic Alliance keynote presentation available via repository: Orchestrating the critical: Library instruction programs and our labor (April 18, 2024)
Promoted from Associate to Full Librarian in 2023
College & Research Libraries special issue (September 2022) - guest editor; and author, Critique as Care: Disrupting Narratives of the One-Shot Instruction Model (Introduction to the special issue)
C&RL Guest Editorial, The Contested One-Shot: Deconstructing Power Structures to Imagine New Futures (May 1, 2021) ~ Article selected as an ALA-LIRT Top 20 Instruction Article for 2021 link