Dawn Stahura

Dawn Stahura is a Research and Instruction Librarian for the Sciences and Health Sciences and the Zine Librarian at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts as well as an adjunct instructor at Indiana University and Louisiana State University. She earned her M.L.S. from Indiana University in 2009, an A.A.S. in Business Management from Ivy Tech Community College in 2006, and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Purdue University in 2001. She is currently enrolled in the MA English (Poetry Writing Focus) program at Salem State. Her first book, Educating with Empathy: A Holistic Framework for Teaching the Research Process, was published in March 2025 through Litwin Books. She has written and published zines since 1992 and has helped public libraries start their own zine collections as well as how to host zine fests. She is the creator of the ACT UP evaluation method that has been globally adopted and adapted in all kinds of libraries and library instruction. To find out more about her work, please visit her website at www.dawnstahura.com.