Julia Maxwell

Julia Anne Maxwell's research and teaching is informed by her experience as both a librarian and performing artist. Her interests lie at the intersection of information science and creativity. Recently, she has been using qualitative methods to investigate how creative professionals engage with diverse information landscapes to sustain their careers and artistic practices.

As an academic librarian, Maxwell used innovative instructional techniques and information literacy best practices to support social welfare and public policy disciplines. She is also a trained evidence synthesis methodologist. Her experiences as a librarian, teacher, and artist inform her critical perspectives around information access, open education, and creative and library-related labor. Maxwell was awarded an American Library Association - Carnegie Whitney grant for her work building a resource guide for public libraries to best support older adult patrons.

Maxwell is in the midst of co-editing a book interrogating the affordability assumptions at the intersection of academic libraries and open education, to be published by Routledge. She has several articles that have recently been published or accepted in journals such as Library Quarterly, New Review of Academic Librarianship, and Library and Information Science Research, as well as recent book chapters published by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.

M.A., Education, University of Michigan Marsal School of Education
M.S., Information Science, University of Michigan School of Information
Graduate Certificate, Learning Experience Design, University of Michigan Marsal School of Education/Center for Academic Innovation
B.A., Musical Theatre, Point Park University

Digital Ethnography Working Group