Author: Ellery Bruns

Ellery Bruns (she/her) is a Master of Library and Information Science candidate at the Pratt Institute, an avid romance novel reader, and an advocate who aims to become a collection development or reference and instruction librarian. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Global, Cultural, and Language Studies with a focus on intersectional feminism, prison abolition, and carceral studies which informs her passion for identifying gaps in research and collections. Her research interests align in the intersections of collection development, intersectional and critical librarianship, database design, DEI, and the romance genre. Ellery recently published her 2024 article “Archival Silences and Avenues To Address Them: A Literature Review" in The Serials Librarian, and she is researching best practices in collection development for the romance genre while designing and developing a relational database for her own book collection in her graduate coursework. Ellery’s librarianship is grounded in empathy, criticalities, and a firm belief in building equitable, inclusive, and accessible collections.