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Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself

Division Library, University

Department/College/Unit Library, University

Title Online Learning Librarian

Affiliation Staff

Staff Type Academic

Primary Office Location Remote work location
Remote Work Location

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Monday through Friday 6am PT - 2pm PT

Mail Stop McHenry Library

Biography, Education and Training

Sheila has worked in both public and academic libraries for a decade. Formerly, she was a Liasion Librarian at Grand Valley State Univeristy. Sheila has a BA in International Relations from Grand Valley State University and an MLIS from Wayne State University. She is a 2016 American Library Association Spectrum Scholar, as well as a 2019 Emerging Leader. Sheila is an active member of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), the Michigan Academic Library Association (MiALA), and has served as the 2020-2021 Residency Interest Group Convener of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Sheila’s research interests lie at the intersection of critical pedagogy and information dissemination within first generation and Latinx communities.

Selected Presentations

García Mazari, S., Frigo, E., Minnis, S., McClure, H., & Hobscheid. (2022, May 17). I feel, therefore I can be free: Managing the emotional states of the research process. Presented at the 2022 Michigan Academic Library Association (MiALA) Annual Conference, Online.

García Mazari, S., McCarthy, S., Galvan, S., & Schiller, E. (2021, November 4). Creating welcoming and equitable library spaces and collections. Panel presented at the 2021 MHSLA/MiALA Pop-Up Conference, Online.

García Mazari, S., Flash, K., Hodge, T., & Dai, J. (2021, July 23). Espacios de confianza: Disrupting power imbalances within the residency experience. Presented at the 2021 People of Color in Library and Information Science (POC in LIS) Summit, Online.

Garcia, S. (2020, September 14). An appeal to kairos: Building a sustainable assessment practice. Presented at the 2020 Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium (CLAPS), Online. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/647086

Garcia, S., Rosen, S., & Espinoza, J. (2020, May 6). Towards a critically reflective practice: Applying an equity and inclusion lens to library assessment. Presented at the 2020 LOEX Conference, Online. 

Selected Publications

García Mazari, S. & Hobscheid, M. Compounded trauma and the teaching librarian: Reflections on trauma informed approaches and the practice of radical empathy. In A. Nichols-Hess (Ed.), Instructional Identities and Information Literacy, Volume 1: Transforming Ourselves. Forthcoming. 

García Mazari, S. & Minnis, S. (2022). Examining the information literacy dreamfield: Applying Sentipensante pedagogy to library research consultations. In M. Seale, A. Santiago, R. Brown, E. Foster, M. Mallon, & J. Nichols (Eds.), Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners. Forthcoming 2022. 

García Mazari, S. (2022, July 8). (Re)negotiating familismo: Cultural tensions in the library residency model. In P. Gorecki & A. Petrovich (Eds.), Residencies Revisited: Reflections on Library Residency Programs from the Past and Present. Library Juice Press.  

García Mazari, S. (2021, December 7). Beyond el arrebato: The seven stages of conocimiento as instruments for radical reflection and the unlearning of white supremacy culture. Reference Services Review, 50(1), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-07-2021-0030

García Mazari, S., Binnie, N., Woodbrook, R., Leyton, D. & Espinoza, J. (2021). Cultivating critical mass: Building an omnidirectional mentoring community. In L. Rod-Welch & B.E. Weeg (Eds.), Academic Library Mentoring: Fostering Growth and Renewal. ACRL. https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/3708