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In this workshop, two librarians from Pace University will discuss how their team pivoted to remote learning in Spring 2020 and collaborated to engage students in this new environment. We’ll discuss the challenges that we faced when we first changed modalities (i.e. moving from in person one-shots to synchronous and asynchronous online classes and tutorials),…

The LibGuides Open Review Discussion Sessions (LORDS) Project works towards cultivating a community across California State University Libraries that provides space for critique, conversation, and criticality. In using critical race theory to acknowledge structures of publishing, libraries, and reference, this LibGuide review system works towards holding criticality to fight against the farce of neutrality within…

As Joy James has articulated the need for the term abolitionisms, wherein she distinguishes academic abolitionism from radical abolitionism, Sandy Grande has similarly described the existence of multiple critical pedagogies in her text Red Pedagogy. As we saw this past summer during the uprisings, social justice is an expansive term that can mean painting Black…

The organizational structure of academia is by nature hierarchical and colonialist. While librarianship remains a feminized field, the few men employed hold leadership positions. Additionally, whiteness is the default. Adherence to traditional power structures afford faculty access to networks unavailable to frontline staff. Across all strata of society, COVID-19 has exacerbated inequities and discrimination; academic…

In response to the media rhetoric surrounding Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and the 2020 election, librarians, in partnership with the First-Year Writing Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, created a Quote-Tracing assignment for English 101 as part of a larger Critical Media Literacy for Writing and Rhetoric Unit. In this activity we are encouraging students…

Anthropologist and activist David Graeber called bureaucracy “the water in which we swim,” and Max Weber, a century before him, used the metaphor of an inescapable “iron cage.” Bureaucracy manifests as “dead zones of the imagination,” and props up the status quo, and yet, a phenomenon called “the iron law of liberalism,” states that any…

Philadelphia-based Womanist Working Collective (WWC) has formed community resources for the past six years through media literacy, cooperative economics, and wellness workshops for Black women, femmes, and AFAB gender non-conforming people. The WWC Archival Fellows have created a digital archive on Omeka, including an oral history collection to increase access to this community resource. Rooted…

Recent studies have shown that social justice education is still lacking, if not absent across MLIS programs. As a gatekeeping tool into the profession, the content taught in MLIS programs has substantial implications for the future direction and focus of the work in the field. Additionally, what is learned through each program can radically transform…

Imagine you are going to teach a first-year seminar, semester-long class that looks critically at the information systems students will encounter in their research. What content would you like to cover in the syllabus? Problematic subject headings? Academia’s discouragement of non-traditional publishing? In this workshop, attendees will brainstorm what a syllabus could look like that…