Marcia Rapchak

Marcia Rapchak, EdD is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Information Culture and Data Stewardship Department. She has been at Pitt since 2018; prior to her work at Pitt, she was Head of Teaching and Learning at an academic library. Dr. Rapchak has worked with the Civic Switchboard Project since 2020, focusing on the Civic Switchboard Education Series and the Civic Switchboard Institutes. Her research and teaching interests are in academic libraries, instructional design, and critical librarianship. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, the Journal of Radical Librarianship, and the Journal of Academic Librarianship, among others. In 2021, Dr. Rapchak was recognized with the Beta Phi Mu award from the American Library Association.