Suzanne M. Stauffer, PhD

Biography

Suzanne M. Stauffer is a Professor in the School of Information Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Stauffer joined the SLIS faculty in 2006. Currently, she advises students in the specializations of Youth Services Librarianship, Adult Services in Public Libraries, and Public Libraries. Her professional experience includes Adult Services/General Reference Librarian in Long Beach, New York, Technical Services Librarian at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, and children’s librarian for the County of Los Angeles.

Courses Taught

LIS 7011 Information Behavior

LIS 7110 Adult Services in Public Libraries

LIS 7405 Public Libraries

LIS 7700 History & Theory of Cultural Heritage Institutions

Research Areas

Print culture (history of the socio-cultural aspects of books, libraries, communication, reading, publishing, authorship, etc.); History of children’s service in public libraries and school libraries; Reading and literacy, especially emergent literacy/early literacy ; Lifelong education and self-education; Librarianship as a profession, including education for librarianship; Gender issues in librarianship.

Selected Publications

Stauffer, Suzanne M. “Correct Provision Can Be Made for Their Wants: The Reading Rooms of the Santa Fe Railroad.” Library & Information History. In press. Anticipated August 2023.

Stauffer, Suzanne M. “The Band of American Ladies : Children’s Librarians and the Creation of Children’s Literature in the Long 19th Century.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, 18(2).

Stauffer, Suzanne M., editor. Libraries, Archives, and Museums: History & Theory of Cultural Heritage Institutions in the West. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.

Stauffer, Suzanne M. ““An Emergency Job Well Done”: Friends of Freedom Libraries and the Mississippi Freedom Libraries.” Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 5(1): 102-128. doi.org/10.5325/libraries.5.1.0102.

Stauffer, Suzanne M. “Educating for Whiteness: Applying Critical Race Theory’s Revisionist History in Library & Information Science Research.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 61(2): 452-462. DOI: 10.3138/jelis.61.4.2019-0042.