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.
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 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
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