Selected Books and Book Series (Authored, Co-Authored, Edited, Co-Edited) 

  • Cooke, N. A. & Cólon-Aguirre. (Eds.). (in preparation). Using CRT to Dismantle White Supremacy in Libraries (Advances in Librarianship Series). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group.
  • Cooke, N. A. (Series Ed.). (2022-present). The Critical Cultural Information Studies Series. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
  • Cooke, N. A. & Cólon-Aguirre. (Eds.). (Proposal submitted). Critical Race Theory in librarianship (The Critical Cultural Information Studies Series). Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
  • Cooke, N. A. (Ed.). (in press). Daring to be great: Celebrating the legacies of Black women librarians. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
  • Cooke, N. A. (in press). Information services to diverse populations, 2nd Edition. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
  • Cooke, N. A. (under contract). Foundations of social justice. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
  • Cooke, N. A. (2018). Fake news and alternative facts: Information literacy in a post-truth era. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.

Selected Book Chapters (in print or accepted)

  • Cooke, N. A. & Green, L. S. (2023). Shutting Down the Tent Revival: The Call for Inclusive Leadership in LIS. In Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community (pp. 87-105). Emerald Publishing Limited.
  • Cooke, N. A. (2022). Decolonizing our hearts and our minds. In T. Neely & M. Montañez (Eds.), Dismantling Constructs of Whiteness in Higher Education: Narratives of Resistance from the Academy (pp. 224–234). Routledge. 
  • Alston, J., & Cooke, N. A. (2022). Critical Cultural Literacy Education as a Bridge to Improving Health Disparities in BIPOC Communities. In C. M. Arnott, A. Keselman, A. J. Wilson (Eds.), Combating Online Health Misinformation: A Professional's Guide to Helping the Public (pp. 121-136). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Landrum, C. S. & Cooke, N. A. (2025). Reimagining social justice in public libraries: A conversation. In N. Lester (Ed.), Strategies and perspectives on social justice work. New York, NY: Modern Language Association.
  • Cooke, N. A. (2022). A right to be misinformed? Considering fake news as a form of information poverty. In N. G. Taylor, K. Kettnich, U. Gorham, & P.T. Jaeger (Eds.), Libraries and the global retreat of democracy: Confronting polarization, misinformation, and suppression (Advances in Librarianship Series, Vol 50) (pp. 45-60). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group.
  • Cooke, N. A., Landrum, C. S., & Pettigrew, J. (2021). Libraries fighting for social justice during the COVID-19 pandemic. In B. Mehra (Ed.), Social justice design and implementation in library and information science (pp.19-29). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journal Articles 
  • Cooke, N. A., & Harris, C. N. (2023). The Softer Side of Censorship. Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy, 8(1), 4.
  • Cooke, N. A. (2023). Chronicling Collective Change: The Multigenerational Advocacy for Diverse Books. English Journal, 112(5), 79-85.
  • Colón-Aguirre, M., Cooke, N. A., & Hussey, L. K. (2022). The Civilized War within American Librarianship: Teaching Strategies for Battling Colorblindness in the LIS Classroom. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 6(4). https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/article/view/38315 
  • Colón-Aguirre, M., & Cooke, N. A. (2022). LibCrit: Moving Toward an Ethical and Equitable Critical Race Theory Approach to Social Justice in Library and Information Science. Journal of Information Ethics, 31(2), 57-69.
  • McDowell, K., & Cooke, N. A. (2022). Social Justice Storytelling: A Pedagogical Imperative. The Library Quarterly, 92(4), 355-378.
  • Colón-Aguirre, M., Cooke, N. A., & Hussey, L. K. (2022). The Civilized War within American Librarianship: Teaching Strategies for Battling Colorblindness in the LIS Classroom. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), 6(4).
  • Cooke, N. A. (2021, August 11). Tell me sweet little lies: Racism as a form of persistent malinformation. PIL Provocation Series, 1(4), Project Information Literacy Research Institute. https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/provocation-series/essays/tell-me-sweet-little-lies.html 
  • Cooke, N. A., & Colón-Aguirre, M. (2021). “Killing it from the inside”: Acknowledging and valuing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color as LIS faculty. The Library Quarterly, 91(3), 243-249.
  • Cooke, N. A., & Kitzie, V.L. (2021). Outsiders‐within‐library and information science: Reprioritizing the marginalized in critical sociocultural work. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72, 1285-1294. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24449  ​