
Martha Attridge Bufton is a subject specialist at the Carleton University Library. She has a MA in history and is enrolled in the MLIS program at the University of Alberta, where her research interests include information literacy and culturally responsive instruction. Her paper Tell More Stories: Information Seeking, Information Literacy and the Design of a Culturally Responsive Instruction Program for First-year Aboriginal Students, won the 2016 IFLA Student Paper Award. Her master’s thesis, Solidarity by Association: The Unionization of Faculty, Academic Librarians and Support Staff at Carleton University (1973-1976), won the Eugene A. Forsey Prize for the best thesis on labour history, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. She has also authored a chapter on unionism in In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada.