Committee for the Promotion of Diversity & Inclusion: Library and Information Science Profession Resources

Using intersectionality as a framework, this edited collection explores the experiences of women of color in library and information science (LIS). With roots in black feminism and critical race theory, intersectionality studies the ways in which multiple social and cultural identities impact individual experience. Libraries and archives idealistically portray themselves as egalitarian and neutral entities that provide information equally to everyone, yet these institutions often reflect and perpetuate societal racism, sexism, and additional forms of oppression.

Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, and others who draw from a variety of theoretical approaches to name, problematize, and ultimately fissure whiteness at work.

Borne of a professional development workshop, Teaching for Justice highlights the commitment and efforts of LIS faculty and instructors who feature social justice theory and strategies in their courses and classroom practices. This book is geared towards LIS instructors who have begun to incorporate social justice into their course content, as well as those who are interested in learning more about how to address social justice in their classrooms.

What are the library services and resources that Asian Pacific Americans need? What does it mean to be an Asian Pacific American librarian in the 21st century? In Asian American Librarians and Library Services: Activism, Collaborations, and Strategies, library professionals and scholars share reflections, best practices, and strategies, and convey the critical need for diversity in the LIS field, library programming, and resources to better reflect the rich and varied experiences and information needs of Asian Americans in the US and beyond.

This book explores some of the challenges that libraries and librarians face due to diversity and inclusion issues among library staff, as well as the patrons that they serve. Its goal is to increase awareness of and sensitivity to the social, cultural, and educational needs of everyone involved.

This book outlines issues surrounding diversity among students, faculty, and staff and how one urban university library is working to embrace and celebrate the diversity found in its building, on campus, and in the local community. This book illustrates how universities are uniquely situated to engage students in discussions about diversity and how academic libraries in particular can facilitate and ease these discussions.

This book consolidates recent research and best practices to address the need for diversity and social justice in the training and education of LIS professionals. The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large--not to mention library customers and society as a whole. This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations that promote the development of empathy and build cultural competence, examines the research in the areas of diversity and social justice in librarianship, explains how social responsibility is a foundational value of librarianship, and identifies potential employment and networking opportunities related to diversity and social justice in librarianship.

Identity and inclusion in the archives: challenges of documenting one’s own community / by Valerie Love and Marisol Ramos -- Into the deep end: one archivist’s struggles with diversity, community, and collaboration and their implications for our profession / by Mark A. Greene -- Regarding indigenous knowledge in archives / by Jeffrey Mifflin -- Revolutionizing the archival record through rap: Cuban hip hop and its implications for reorienting the archival paradigm / by Tiffany-Kay Sangwand -- Archives (re)imagined elsewhere: Asian American community-based archival organizations / by Vivian Wong, Tom Ikeda, Ellen-Rae Cachola, and Florante Peter Ibanez -- A documentation case study: the desegregation of Virginia education (dove) project -/ by Sonia Yaco and Beatriz Betancourt Hardy -- Respecting their word: how the Braun Research Library works with native communities / by Kim Walters -- Building diversity inside archival institutions / by Sharon Thibodeau -- The family and community archives project: introducing high school students to archives and the archives profession / by Daniel Hartwig and Christine Weideman -- Pluralizing archival education: a non-zero-sum proposition / by Anne J. Gilliland.