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(2020) . Critical Library Instruction, Causing Trouble, and Institutionalization. Communications in Information Literacy, 14 (1), 75-85 . Retrieved from [https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol14/](https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol14/)[ ](https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol14/)iss1/6  \nThis Perspective is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Communications in Information Literacy by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact [pdxscholar@pdx.edu](pdxscholar@pdx.edu).  \nCritical Library Instruction, Causing Trouble, and Institutionalization  \nMaura Seale, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor  \nAbstract  \nThis essay considers the institutionalization of critical library instruction in the decade since the publication of Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed and Rod Ferguson, I suggest that because library instruction is marginalized within librarianship, critical library instruction can and has become institutionalized within the profession. The institutionalization of critical library instruction represents the management of the wider-ranging and more troublesome critiques of critical librarianship. The marginality of critical library instruction, however, means that it continues to function as a site of troublemaking.  \nKeywords: information literacy, instruction, critical librarianship, institutionalization, critical theory, Critical Library Instruction  \nSpecial issue edited by Maria T. Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier  \nSeale, M. (2020). Critical library instruction, causing trouble, and institutionalization. Communications in Information Literacy, 14(1), 75–85.  \nCritical Library Instruction, Causing Trouble, and Institutionalization  \nI distinctly recall when I saw the call for proposals for Critical Library Instruction: Theories and Methods; I was in a one-year position as a liaison librarian at an academic library three hours from where I was born and grew up. I had been a credentialed academic librarian for less than a year and had very little library instruction experience. My library school did not offera course in instruction, so I observed library instruction sessions when I could, did a few summer orientations, and when I started my first job, began asking more practiced librarians for lesson plans, slides, and advice. The call for proposals nonetheless caught my attention, as I had been both a teaching assistant and composition instructor in my Ph.D. program and library school. I was a teaching assistant for two American studies courses, which broadly focused on the politics of mass culture, and for a course on the sociology of information, which critically engaged with and historicized information systems and technology. My first-year composition classes similarly emphasized politics as well as race, class, gender, and sexuality. Despite the reputation of first-year composition (among both students and teachers), I very much enjoyed teaching these courses and helping students develop a critical stance towards texts by unpacking their assumptions and implicit ideologies.  \nLibrary instruction, in contrast, seemed kind of boring. 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