Bailey Hoffner

Bailey Hoffner is the Metadata Librarian for Digital Resources and Discovery Services at Oklahoma State’s Edmon Low Library. As an adult-diagnosed autistic woman, she is particularly interested in the representation of autistic experience in libraries and library metadata. She is currently working on a Critical Interpretive Synthesis entitled Perceptions and Discourses of Autism in Library and Information Science Literature with international collaborators, and is an advocate for slow librarianship as a radical practice of inclusivity in library work.

Research Interests:

Disability studies and libraries
Autistic and neurodivergent experience of libraries (worker perspective)
Representation of neurodivergence in library literature and library systems