LaVerne Gray
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Pirates, Ghosts, and Other Unexplored Spaces Open
Competency gaps between working professionals and LIS educators persist for a variety of reasons. One primary reason is the growing multitude of knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to cover in curricula to prepare professionals in t…
Dismantling Entrenched Citadels in LIS Open
Critical/ethical perspectives in resistance/survival within entrenched social structures in library and information science (LIS) (education/practice) provide potentially valuable opportunities to rectify wrongdoings/promote fairness, just…
Catalysts for Change Open
Challenges of Underrepresentation in LIS The underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC) within LIS poses significant challenges to the field’s efforts to advance equity, access, and representation. The statistics…
Welcome to Information Science Open
Inspired by CAIS’ conference theme of “Imagining Information,” the participants of this panel will enact the following scenario: At an orientation event for an information science program, a spokesperson gives incoming students a brief add…
(Re)Imagined Black Informational Past: Chicago’s New Negro Intercollegiate Club and the Wonder Books, 1927 & 1929 Open
In 1927, the collective of Black students known as the Washington Intercollegiate Club of Chicago went out into their community to collect data about the various components of the Black experience. This research turned into the two edition…
Curating Virality: Exploring Curated Logics Within #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter/X Open
This study examines what types of messages users posted and spread about #Black/Blue/AllLivesMatter during the Black History Month of 2022. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, about one million tweets were analyzed to test if …
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Countering Systemic Racism through Antiracist Theory and Practice Open
Racial discrimination persists as a feature of American life. In his 1881 essay, “The Color Line,” Frederick Douglass describes the enduring strain of racial prejudice which he characterized as a “moral disorder” that “creates the conditio…
ALISE Historical Perspectives SIG Open
Thirty years later we look back to ALA’s Library History Round Table (LHRT) Statement on History in Education for Library and Information Science and consider how we elevate the perspectives of the historically marginalized in the telling …
CURATING VIRALITY: EXPLORING CURATED LOGICS WITHIN #BLACKLIVESMATTER ON TWITTER Open
This study investigates the information sharing behavior of different levels of Twitter influencers within the context of the #BlackLivesMatter social movement and its related discussions #AlllivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter during the 2-w…
From “Mesearch” to “Wesearch”: The Role of Community in Developing Identity-Centric Research Open
The term “mesearch” has sometimes been used pejoratively to refer to topics of study of personal interest and importance to the individual conducting the research. This paper argues that a valuable research project can emerge from the inhe…
Half Has Never Been Told Open
The use of primary source documents in the pursuit of understanding the complex histories Library and Information Studies (LIS) is essential to connecting the foundations of the profession. The historical perspectives SIG will create a sha…
Critical Race Theory as Innovative Pedagogy in LIS Open
The wake of the racial awakening summer of 2020, which led to an interest convergence for racial justice along with the subsequent chilling of racial justice progress serves as the context for this engaging and thought provoking panel. Fur…
Information Abundance and Deficit Open
The article presents a methodological analysis of Elfreda Chatman’s research on marginal populations. Revisiting the methodological legacy and influence of Chatman’s research addresses positioning of the marginal within information environ…
Assessing anti-racist resources online Open
Examining the response of a library during a tumultuous period not only provides insight about the library’s past, but also allows the library to improve its actions to better serve its communities in the future. The summer of 2020 marked …
Case Study Inquiry & Black Feminist Resistance Open
This article explains the researcher ownership of tools of inquiry. Using personal narrative, the text highlights the elements of case study development presenting the familial as the impetus for an alternative mode for LIS social justice …
Going against the current of hegemonic “white-ism” discourse: Global implications of a doctoral program journey from critical student+guide perspectives Open
This paper presents a critique of systemic LIS education and its hegemonic “White-Ism” discourse prevalent across the conceptualization and implementation of doctoral programs. The\ntext illuminates the structural aspects of the doctoral e…
Chatman revisited: A panel re-examining and resituating social theories of identity, access, and marginalization in LIS Open
Elfreda Chatman’s work was among the first in information science to thoroughly and explicitly address information access and marginalization as social processes. In defining her theories of Information Poverty, Life in the Round, and Norm…
In a Collective Voice: Uncovering the Black Feminist Information Community of Activist-Mothers in Chicago Public Housing, 1955-1970 Open
In 1963, a group of African-American mothers seeking equity of access, voiced to city officials the need for their neighborhood to have a library. One speaker asserted that the lack of access to a library center would hinder community educ…
Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom Open
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