Skip to main content

Stef Baldivia

Student Success Librarian | Affordable Learning Solutions Specialist
California State University, San Bernardino
Emoji of Stef Baldivia, an illustration of a Chicana Latina with short brown hair and eyes wearing red heart shaped glasses and a blue nose ring, holding up a peace sign.

Stefani Baldivia is the Student Success Librarian focused on Affordable Learning Solutions at California State University, San Bernardino, where she leads initiatives focused on inclusive library instruction, critical information literacy, and culturally relevant outreach. She works closely with student success programs that support historically underserved populations. With an academic background in Native American Studies and a Master of Library and Information Science from Cal Poly Humboldt and San José State University, respectively, Stefani brings a deeply rooted commitment to social justice into her work as an information professional. Her research interests include Latinx leadership in libraries, servingness in library instruction, anticolonial approaches to archival work, teaching with primary sources, and diversifying collections through community-centered oral histories

Member for

1 week 1 day

Resources Contributed

This plan focuses on student empowerment, emphasizing there is no single correct way to interpret sources rhetorical functions; there is no single correct way to integrate sources into one’s own writing. There are a plurality of approaches to source integration which supports students’ academic inquiry through their own critical reading and writing.   This instructional plan relies on Joseph Bizup’s rhetorical analysis asserting that all scholarly sources fulfill one of four functions…