Joe Buenker

Joe Buenker graduated with a B.A. in English (American and British literature) from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1994 and a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.

Buenker has been employed as a librarian at Arizona State University since 2000, is highly skilled in the use of academic research databases, and has extensive knowledge about academic integrity and plagiarism education, collection development, information literacy/library instruction, research and reference services - including online services such as "Ask a Librarian" - and enjoys assisting faculty and students with their research projects.

Joe is actively compiling a bibliography of American Indian and First Nations Canadian literary collections (book anthologies and special journal issues), as well as an deep inventory of books authored, edited or illustrated by American Indians and First Nations Canadians.

He has been reading, researching, and collecting Louise Erdrich books and memorabilia as well as compiling an extensive bibliography of writings by or about Erdrich since the early 1990s.