JJ Pionke
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- Truman State University (B.A., 2000; M.A., 2003)
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MLIS, 2013)
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| Occupations | Librarian, disability advocate |
| Awards | Library Journal's Movers and Shakers |
JJ Pionke is a librarian and disability advocate. He served as Applied Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2014 to 2023, and has served as an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University since 2019 teaching Accessible Library and Information Services.[1][2][3]
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Pionke graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Master of Library and Information Science in 2013.[4]
As part of his work, he has created research guides on various disabilities including chronic illness and limb difference used at his library and adapted for elsewhere.[5] Physical changes were also made to the library based on his work, including "installing a handrail to the interior ramp near the Interlibrary Loan services, rebuilding the west-entry ramp to Library 66 and adding more signs."[6]
Pionke was recognized as one of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers in 2020 for his work on improving accessibility in the university library system.[5] Pionke is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration.[7]
Pionke is also the editor of the open access journal Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS).[8] He has published a number of reviews in DisLIS, as well as interviews with disability scholar Margaret Price and authors Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan.[9][10]