Stefanie R. Bluemle

Library Director

• Phone: 309-794-7167
• Email: StefanieBluemle@augustana.edu
• Office: Tredway Library 217

I became the director of Augustana’s Thomas Tredway Library in summer 2022, after more than ten years on campus as a research & instruction librarian and library liaison to the humanities division. As director, I oversee the library’s operations and facilities, support collaboration between the library and other campus departments, and provide leadership in developing our strategic vision. Having previously served as Tredway Library’s instruction coordinator, I maintain a strong interest in information literacy and assessment.

I have published and presented at academic conferences on information literacy, assessment of student learning, and collaborations between special collections and other forms of information literacy instruction. My most recent scholarship focuses on the intersection between academic information literacy and national politics.

Selected publications

Bluemle, Stefanie R. “A Close Look at the Concept of Authority in Information Literacy.” Journal of New Librarianship 8, no. 2 (2023): 1-28.

Bluemle, Stefanie R. “Post-Facts: Information Literacy and Authority after the 2016 Election.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 18, no. 2 (2018): 265-282. [Winner of the 2019 Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries and the portal: Libraries and the Academy 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for Best Article]

Bluemle, Stefanie R., Amanda Y. Makula, and Margaret W. Rogal. “Learning by Doing: Performance Assessment of Information Literacy across the First-Year Curriculum.” College & Undergraduate Libraries 20, no. 3-4 (2013): 298-313. [2013 Top Twenty article, Library Instruction Round Table of the American Library Association]

Selected presentations

Bluemle, Stefanie R. and Sarah M. Horowitz. “Assessing Hands-On Learning in Special Collections: A Pilot Study.” Poster presented at the 2014 American Library Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 28, 2014. [Presented as part of the first cohort of Assessment in Action]

Bluemle, Stefanie R. and Sarah M. Horowitz. “Beyond Search: Information Literacy, Special Collections, and the First Year.” Concurrent session at the National Resource Center’s 33rd Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, San Diego, CA, February 18, 2014.

Bluemle, Stefanie R., Amanda Makula, and Margaret Rogal. “Concept/Context: Information Literacy and Assessment in the First Year.” Poster presented at the National Resource Center’s 32nd Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, Orlando, FL, February 25, 2013.

Specializations: Library, Academic librarianship, Information literacy, Assessment