Work
Recent Publications
Greenshields, M., & Zvyagintseva, L. (2024). Thinking categorically: Why is Library and Information Studies afraid of power? Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 4 [Special Issue: Assemblage, Inquiry, and Common Work in Library and Information Studies, Melissa Adler & Andrew Lau (eds.)]. https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/178
Zvyagintseva, L., & Greenshields, M. (Eds.). (2023). Land in libraries: Toward a materialist conception of education. Library Juice Press. Sample chapter.
Greenshields, M., & Polkinghorne, S. (2022). Love is a lens: Locating love in Library and Information Studies. Library Trends, 70(4), 458-471. doi:10.1353/lib.2022.0011. Pre-print version.
Greenshields, M., & Given, L. M. (2022). Are we there yet?: Feminist approaches in Information Science. Paper presented at Conceptions of Library and Information Science - CoLIS11, Oslo, Norway. https://doi.org/10.47989/colis2207
Fuhr, J., Greenshields, M., Popowich, E., & Wheatley, A. (February 3, 2022). Working well together: The value of building community through relationships & connection. Panel presentation at Ontario Library Association Super Conference, online. https://www.olasuperconference.ca/
Greenshields, M. (May 20, 2021). Conversations on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Information Literacy instruction. Panel presentation at CAPAL 2021, online. https://conference.capalibrarians.org/
Greenshields, M. (March 3, 2021). Information wants to be free: Teaching Library Studies with an OER. Lightning talk at the University of Alberta Open Education Symposium, Edmonton, Canada. https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/events/open-education-events.html
Cowan, S., & Greenshields, M. (December 3, 2020). Making the invisible visible: Emotional labour in theory & practise. Presentation at Alberta Association of Academic Libraries, Fall meeting, online. https://youtu.be/xbTkraJk7to
Greenshields, M., & Polkinghorne, S. (2020). What the world needs now? Love as a lens on Library and Information work today. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. journals.library.ualberta.ca/ojs.cais-acsi.ca/index.php/cais-asci/article/view/1171
Heavy Head, D., & Greenshields, M. (September 25, 2020). Disrupting the Commons: Indigenizing and decolonizing in the library’s White space. Breakout session at the Social Justice Symposium, School of Liberal Education, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, online. https://www.uleth.ca/liberal-education /breakout-sessions
Zvyagintseva, L., & Greenshields, M. (August 2019). Feminized but not feminist: The politics of libraries in the academic library. Paper presented at Politics of Libraries: Labour in Libraries conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Greenshields, M. (June 2019). Imagining the edifice: Library consultation & the social construction of the ideal space. Paper presented at Congress, CAPAL / ACBES, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. https://capalibrarians.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/5A_Greenshields.pdf
Revitt, E., Magnus, E., Schrader, A., & Wright, J. (2019). CAPAL 2018 census [translator / traductrice].
https://fr.capalibrarians.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Rapport_final_25_mars_2019.pdf
Heavy Head, A. D., & Greenshields, M. (February 2019). Let me draw you a map: Knowledge management from “two completely different streams of thought.” Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v4.31467
Current Employment
Coordinator, Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages, EUI, Italy, September 2024 - Present
Teacher of English for Academic Purposes, European University Institute (EUI), Italy, June 2024 - Present
I also work as a peer-reviewer for a number of publications and conferences in the Library & Information Science realm, as well as being a freelance editor for academic and non-academic writing.
Past Employment
Teaching & Learning Librarian, European University Institute, Italy, March 2022 - May 2024
Sessional Instructor, various post-secondary institutions, Canada, 2005 - 2022
Liaison Librarian to Indigenous Programmes, University of Lethbridge, Canada, 2019 - December 2021
Academic Library Resident, University of Alberta, Canada, 2018 - 2019