Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science

Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword: The Legacy of Promoting Social Justice in Library and Information Science (Paul T. Jaeger); Introduction (Bharat Mehra); I. EMERGING NEW RESPONSIBILITIES ; 1. Libraries Fighting for Social Justice During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Nicole A. Cooke, Cyndee Sturgis Landrum, and Jocelyn Pettigrew); 2. Role of Rural Libraries in Supporting Social Well-being in their Communities: Participatory Research to Promote Social Justice (Eli M. Guinnee and Margo E. Gustina); II. REFLECTIVE CASE PRACTICES; 3. Understanding the Librarian Identity: The Common Agency Within the Diversity of Public Librarianship (Vanessa Irvin); 4. Wilkes County Public Library's Involvement in the Food Justice Movements in Rural North Carolina (Noah Lenstra and Rebecca Floyd); 5. A Public Library's Response to Substance Abuse Recovery: Blount County Recovery Court Life Skills Program (Kaurri C. Williams-Cockfield); 6. Digital Archives and Inclusion of Underrepresented Groups: Case Studies of the Voices Out Loud and Black in Appalachia Projects (Scott Sikes); III. REACHING OUT: NEW RESEARCH APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES; 7. Positioning Social Justice in a Black Feminist Information Activist Community Context: A Case Study of African American Activist-Mothers in Chicago's Public Housing (LaVerne Gray and Yiran Duan); 8. Everyday Information Practices of Migrant Latinas Living in Boston (Monica Colon-Aguirre and Janet Ceja Alcala); 9. Conceptualizing Co-mapping Knowledges to Promote Social Justice Outcomes with Aboriginal Communities through Design Pedagogy (Jia Tina Du, Julie Nichols, Stefan Peters, Darren Fong, Angelica Harris-Faull, Ning Gu, Anna Leditschke, and Jannatul Fardous); 10. Multidisciplinary Perspectives for an Integrative Critical Gerontology Information Framework (Joseph Winberry and Bharat Mehra); IV. TRANSFORMING LIS EDUCATION; 11. The Mis-Education of the Librarian: Addressing Curricular Injustice in the LIS Classroom through Social Justice Pedagogy (Beth Patin, Melinda Sebastian, Jieun Yeon, Danielle Bertolini, and Alexandra Grimm; 12. Creating Accessible Learning Environments and Informing Social Justice through Inclusive Course Design (Clayton A. Copeland and Kim M. Thompson); 13. Social Responsibility of Libraries to Address Community Homelessness: Social Justice Actions in Two LIS Courses (Julie Ann Winkelstein); 14. Indigenous-Engaged Education: A Canadian Case (Toni Samek); 15. Designing for Social Justice in the MLIS Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Maryland (Morgan Adle, Paul T. Jaeger, and Ursula Gorham); V. INSTRUMENTS OF ACTION AND CHANGE; 16. An Autoethnographic Narrative of Institutional Injustice: Queer Resilience through Use of Evidence and Memory (Donna Braquet); 17. Inspiring Information Communities to Advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Information Action Briefs for Social Transformation (Kendra S. Albright, Clara M. Chu, Jia Tina Du, and Bharat Mehra); 18. Implementation of Social Justice Design in Developing International Guidelines for LGBTQ+ Library Resources, Services, and Programming (Rachel Wexelbaum, Julie Winkelstein, and Michael David Miller); Index