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Children Survivors of Family Violence Open
Family violence is a widespread issue that significantly impacts children, often leading to mental and physical health problems (Barnett et al., 2010; Lopez et al., 2021). Despite various interventions and programs, the problem persists. C…
View article: Community Informatics in the Tik Tok Trump Era
Community Informatics in the Tik Tok Trump Era Open
The eponymously titled, Journal of Community Informatics, recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary, and shares a clear definition of community informatics: “the study and practice of enabling communities with Information and Communica…
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…
Threading Community Resources into an Encyclopedic View on Our 125-Year Collective Milestone Open
The Archival / Preservation Education SIG session offers pedagogical insights on master’s-level information science and archival education. Four fifteen-minute individual presentations and audience discussion examine how the educators enga…
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…
Strategic Foresight in Civic Engagement for Racial Justice Open
This paper briefly identifies qualitative themes from semi-structured feedback collected in online interviews/focus groups with forty public library staff in the American South about their foresight regarding library roles in civic engagem…
<span>AI</span> and Social Justice in <span>LIS</span> Open
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape how information is produced, shared, and accessed, raising urgent questions about equity, accountability, and fairness. This poster, inspired by the upcoming volume A…
Racial Justice in Library Practitioner Discourse: Implications for <span>AI</span> Open
This study presents preliminary results of an action research project exploring racial justice in U.S. southern public library communities and discusses the implications of its findings for AI bias. Two research questions are addressed: “H…
Operationalizing Inclusion of Diverse Older Adults in Aging Services Information Open
As the United States’ population ages, it is also becoming more diverse. The country’s Older Americans Act requires county-level offices on aging to be both service and information providers. But it is unclear to what extent offices on agi…
Civic Engagement and Collective Impact for Social Change Open
This paper provides “leaps of faith” in reporting work-in-progress of ongoing research from a grant project connecting assessment and evaluation of existing civic engagement efforts to further racial justice, strategic planning and goal se…
Writing Practice in LIS Open
Whether leaping or stumbling, writing is the final and arguably most difficult and important stage of the research process. Our evolving literature review reveals, however, that writing receives little attention as a practice within Librar…
Community Informatics & I Open
In this essay, inspired by the timeliness of our chronologically shared symbolic birth (the journal’s inaugural issue and my professional career as a faculty member) I briefly discuss and critically analyze the influence of community infor…
How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century Open
This panel presents research and scholarship, case studies, and reflective narratives that exemplify how public libraries use social capital to build communities and affect social change (Wojciechowska, 2021). Session participants will hea…
Collaborations between Public Library Educators and Practitioners to Apply a Theory of Change and Promote Civic Engagement for Racial Justice in the American South Open
The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grants for Libraries program recently awarded a $332,939 grant titled “Civic Engagement for Racial Justice in Public Libraries” (RJ@PL) to the University of Alabama and the …
An Exploratory Community-Engaged Framework to Operationalize Building Bridges between Public Library Education and Praxis Open
This article explores an exploratory/emerging framework collaboratively developed by a public librarian and library and information science (LIS) educator to operationalize community-engaged programming through critical autoethnographic re…
Collaborations to Support the SJ4A Curriculum in Archival Studies and Social Justice Intersections: Training of Community-Embedded Paraprofessional Archivists Who Are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Open
The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program recently awarded a $463,238 grant titled “Training of Community-Embedded Social Justice Archivists” (SJ4A) to the School of Library and Information Stu…
A Logic Model Using Theory of Change Applied in Grant Development of Civic Engagement for Racial Justice in Public Libraries Open
This poster highlights insights from application of a logic model using Theory of Change (ToC) applied in ongoing grant development of civic engagement for racial justice in public libraries of the American South. An externally funded gran…
View article: Countering Systemic Racism through Antiracist Theory and Practice
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…
How are Archives-Related Agencies in the United States Representing “Social Justice” on their Websites Based on Political Leaning of the 50 States? Open
Contemporary archives-related agencies in the United States increasingly recognize the entrenched reality of archival work that has historically stayed privileged and biased while representing a semblance of neutrality (Society of American…
View article: Translating Practice to Positively Transform our Information Workforce
Translating Practice to Positively Transform our Information Workforce Open
The Archival / Preservation Education SIG session offers pedagogical insights on master’s-level information science and archival education. Five ten-minute individual presentations and audience discussion elucidate educators’ roles in deve…
Decolonizing LIS Journal Publishing in International Context Open
In moving beyond words and taking action on diversity in the library and information field globally, equity, inclusion, accessibility and development need to be addressed. Diversity has been espoused to address inequality in our field incl…
Mapping a Taxonomic Framework for Developing Adolescent Mental Health Literacies for Educators, Librarians and Other Helping Professions Open
The adolescent mental health burden is a global phenomenon with implications for morbidity and mortality. Adolescent health disparities have been impacted by the underutilization of mental health services, stigma and shortage of culturally…
Ethnography kaleidescope in library and information science Open
Ethnography has become a popular research design in LIS, with many creative implementations as well as concomitant problems. The seven panelists have expert perspectives to share about ethnography’s evolution and impact within our field. T…
Operationalizing Theories and Methods to Integrate Social Justice in LIS Scholarship Open
Editorial
Elfreda Annmary Chatman in the 21st Century Open
Elfreda Annmary Chatman (1942-2002) is considered a pioneer library and information science (LIS) scholar for her theory development and ethnographic approach to understand information behaviors of understudied populations (e.g., female in…
Elfreda Annmary Chatman in the 21st Century: At the Intersection of Critical Theory and Social Justice Imperatives Open
Elfreda Annmary Chatman (1942-2002) is considered a pioneer library and information science (LIS) scholar for her theory development and ethnographic approach to understand information behaviors of understudied populations (e.g., female in…
Poetry and the “Voice” of LIS Educators: Transforming the Fabric of Lives and More Open
Lost in the scope and study of library and information science (LIS) education within our\nhegemonic immersion in contemporary neoliberal values, structures, and systems, we\nunfortunately have marginally examined the power of poetry in kn…
Transforming LIS Education through Disability Inclusion Open
Combining perspectives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US, this\ninternational panel will develop an honest dialog on disability inclusion in LIS education,\ndrawing on empirical research, discursive analysis, and practical ex…
How international are we? Mapping of “global” intersections in the LIS curriculum Open
This paper presentation highlights how truly international is library and information science (LIS) education in the United States and Canada based on content mapping of “global” intersections in the LIS curriculum. The exploratory mixed-m…