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Poole, Alex H.; Todd-Diaz, Ashley – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
Recent official pronouncements by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the exhortations of recent SAA presidents highlight the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and social justice in the archival enterprise. Graduate archival education programs have immense influence in readying students for practice. Faculty members…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Social Justice
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Ndumu, Ana; Chancellor, Renate – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
This article revisits Rosemary DuMont's 1986 articles on Black librarianship and racial attitudes in LIS. The first part addresses missing or limited coverage on the library schools at five historically Black colleges and universities: Alabama A&M University, Clark Atlanta University, University of the District of Columbia, Hampton University,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Library Education, Information Science Education, Racial Discrimination
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Ndumu, Ana – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
This demographic study contributes to scholarship on the recruitment of Blacks into the US LIS workforce by situating Black librarianship within broader population trends. The research combines historical LIS reports, Africana studies scholarship, and federal data to describe how long-term transitions in the overall US Black population influence…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Student Recruitment, Information Science Education
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Poole, Alex H.; Agosto, Denise; Greenberg, Jane; Lin, Xia; Yan, Erjia – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
The field of LIS continues to face a vexing paradox. Its longstanding ideal of and concomitant commitment to serving diverse communities and users equally has failed to translate into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the profession or in LIS education. This article analyzes efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in North…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Library Science, Student Diversity, Equal Education
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Mehra, Bharat – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
The article discusses an instructor's critical pedagogies and reflective practices in three graduate library and information science (LIS)-related courses on topics of social justice and inclusion advocacy, diversity leadership in information organizations, and community-engaged scholarship that were taught at the University of Alabama since…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Information Science Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Innovation
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Mehra, Bharat – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2019
Traditionally, American library and information science (LIS) education and librarianship have been predominantly white and female-oriented professions. As an international gay male person of color (originally from India) in its ranks, I have embraced social justice scholarship outside and within our bastion institutions of higher learning during…
Descriptors: Library Science, College Faculty, Males, Minority Group Teachers
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Helkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science