About Mary

Work

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   

Craig, R., Glover, A., & Greenshields, M. (February 2019). Full circle mentorship. Panel presentation at the Southern Alberta Library Conference, Lethbridge, Canada.

Greenshields, M. (2018). Working with Indigenous students in academic libraries. Panel presentation to LIS 598 students, School of Library & Information Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Greenshields, M. (2018). Muddying the waters: Reflections of the gendered Self in autographica. Poster presented at Alberta Library Conference, Jasper, Canada.

Greenshields, M. (2017). Libraries and Indigenous peoples in Canada. Paper presented at the International Federation of Library Associations, Multicultural division, Wroclaw, Poland.

Greenshields, M. (2017). Libraries and FNMI peoples: Missed Connections? Paper presented at Congress, CAPAL / ACBES division, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.


Current Employment

  • Coordinator ad interim, 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