ORCID
Downey: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-8820
MSU Affiliation
University Libraries
Creation Date
2025-11-04
Abstract
Graphic novels and comics have garnered acceptance in recent years, finding their way into library collections, literacy programs, scholarly publications and classrooms. This article examines the use of graphic novels in graduate-level library and information studies programs through a survey conducted of instructors teaching at American Library Association-accredited institutions. The authors wanted to determine whether faculty in library and information studies programs were assigning graphic novels in their literature and materials courses, particularly courses with an emphasis on children’s and ‘young adult’ materials, what graphic novels were being assigned, and how they were incorporated into the curriculum.
Publication Date
4-2012
Publication Title
New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship
Publisher
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
First Page
67
Last Page
83
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Downey, Elizabeth M. and Davidson, Karen, "Graphic Novels in Graduate-Level Library and Information Studies Literature and Materials Courses" (2012). Publications. 154.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/works_publications/154
Comments
This is an electronic version of an article published in New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, 18:67–83, 2012. NEW REVIEW OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND LIBRARIANSHIP is available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13614541.2012.664427.