Joel Blechinger is a Critical AI Literacy Librarian at MacEwan University. He has previously worked at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Mount Royal University, and the University of Calgary.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4907-3601
Book an appointment with Joel here: https://libcal.macewan.ca/appointments/joel
Blechinger, J. (2026, June 22). "Source faithfulness" and "negative rejection" as promising teaching concepts for cultivating student AI literacy [Lightning talk]. CAPAL26: The Irreplaceable Librarian: Reasserting Human Value in Librarianship. Virtual. https://doi.org/10.17613%2Fa2vgw-5r539
Blechinger, J. (2026, April 29). Prediction markets as a new and distinct challenge for information literacy theory [Conference presentation]. Calgary Libraries in Action 2026. Virtual. https://doi.org/10.17613%2Fv29dd-jme24
Blechinger, J. (2026). Probabilistic obliteration and formulaic fabrication: Citational (in)justice in the age of generative artificial intelligence. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.310
Blechinger, J. (2024, June 7). Insist on sources: Wikipedia, Large Language Models, and the limits of information literacy instruction [Conference presentation]. CAPAL24: Sustainability and Shared Futures in Academic Libraries. Virtual. https://doi.org/10.60770/36Y6-3562
Zvyagintseva, L., & Blechinger, J. (2023). “The perils of library instruction”: Contextualizing EdTech's encroachment on teaching through labour theory of value in academic libraries. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 9, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40958
Blechinger, J. (2023). Reflections on information literacy in the ChatGPT era. Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals, 4(1), 163–172. https://doi.org/10.29173/pathfinder78
Please see personal website for a full list of publications and presentations.
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