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Librarianship Literature on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

I&O Meeting DEI Readings - Arranged by Meeting Date

Are you trying to remember which DEI-related articles we've discussed so far during our I&O meetings? Here's a list of what we've covered so far.

Note: The citations below were put together with speedy, not formatting accuracy, in mind.

February 17, 2023 -  E. Dommermuth and L. W. Roberts. (???). Listening to First Generation College Students in Engineering: Implications for Libraries & Information Literacy. Communications in Information Literacy 16(2): 90-118. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2022.16.2.2

January 20, 2023 -  Hardesty, Juliet L. and Allison Nolan. (J2021). Mitigating Bias in Metadata: A Use Case Using Homosaurus Linked Data. Information Technology and Libraries, 40(3):1–14, https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v40i3.13053.

December 2022 - Jia He. (2021). Diversity and Inclusion: Better Serving International Students at Academic Libraries. In Hope and a Future: Perspectives on the Impact that Librarians and Libraries Have on our World, Advances in Librarianship, 48. 

November 18, 2022 - Figueroa, Monica, and Kristan Shawgo. (2022). “You Can't Read Your Way Out Of racism”: Creating Anti-Racist Action Out of Education in an Academic Library.” Reference Services Review, 50(1): 25–39.  https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-06-2021-0025 .

October 21, 2022 - Lalitha Nataraj, Holly Hampton, Talitha R. Matlin, and Yvonne Nalani Meulemans. (2020). ’Nice White Meetings’: Unpacking Absurd Library Bureaucracy through a Critical Race Theory Lens. Canadian Journal of Academic Librianship 6. https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/34340/27009 [Discussion continued from the September meeting]

September 16, 2022 - Lalitha Nataraj, Holly Hampton, Talitha R. Matlin, and Yvonne Nalani Meulemans. (2020). ’Nice White Meetings’: Unpacking Absurd Library Bureaucracy through a Critical Race Theory Lens. Canadian Journal of Academic Librianship 6. https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/34340/27009

August 26, 2022 Fobazi Ettarh (January 2018). Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves. In The Library With The Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/.

July 22, 2022 - Jessica M. Abbazio, Every Boddie, and Ellen Ogihara. (2022). Music Libraries and an Expanding Repertory: Suggested Strategies for Building Diverse Music Library Collections. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association  78(3). https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.library.wmich.edu/article/847157

June 24, 2022Davis, R., & Saunders, L. (2021). Beyond lip service: A call for research-informed services for Black and African-American students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 102479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102479

May 20, 2022Marcia Rapchak (2019). That Which Cannot Be Named: The Absence of Race in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 5.

April 15, 2022Emily Vickers and Zoua Sylvia Yan. (2022). Double the Vocation, Double the Awe: An Examination of Vocational Awe in Music Librarianship. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 78(3).

March 25, 2022Michele R. Santamaria. (2020). Concealing White Supremacy through Fantasies of the Library: Economies of Affect at Work. Library Trends, 68(3).