Reference Services Review: Volume 50 Issue 1
Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age
Table of contents - Special Issue: Anti-Racist Action in Libraries
Guest Editors: Sarah Barbara Watstein, Elizabeth M. Johns, Mark A. Puente and, Jim Hahn
Library response to Black Liberation Collective: a review of student calls for change and implications for anti-racist initiatives in academic libraries
Amy Faye Bocko, LuMarie Guth, Micha BroadnaxIn September 2015 protests erupted at the University of Missouri following a series of racist incidents on campus and culminating in the resignation of the university president in…
“You can't read your way out of racism”: creating anti-racist action out of education in an academic library
Monica Figueroa, Kristan ShawgoUnder the transformational leadership of the University Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries shifted from having an education- and…
Beyond El Arrebato: the seven stages of Conocimiento as instruments for radical reflection and the unlearning of white supremacy culture
Sheila García MazariTo be actively antiracist requires an internal reckoning, what Chicana activist and scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa referred to as “el arrebato.” Used to describe the first of seven…
Toward belonging and mutual hospitality: decentering whiteness in the “new normal”
Africa HandsThe postquarantine reopening of public libraries presents an opportunity for resetting the way libraries welcome patrons. Unfortunately, vestiges of inhospitable, white…
Whiteness from the top down: systemic change as antiracist action in LIS
Alyssa Jennings, Kristine KinzerThe purpose of the paper is two-fold. The first is to inform the readers of the racist origins of libraries in America. Readers will learn about historic instances of systemic…
Analysis of anti-racism, equity, inclusion and social justice initiatives in library and information science literature
Emily P. Jones, Nandita S. Mani, Rebecca B. Carlson, Carolyn G. Welker, Michelle Cawley, Fei YuThe objective of this study is to establish the current state of library and information science (LIS) scholarship pertaining to anti-racism, equity, inclusion and social justice…
Beyond the police: libraries as locations of carceral care
Teresa Helena MorenoThe purpose of this paper is to make visible the connections libraries have to carceral systems and how library workers replicate carceral behavior through care.
Radical re-imagination: centering a BIPOC library workforce in an asset-based autoethnography
Janis J. Shearer, Ben B. ChiewphasaAcademic BIPOC librarians oftentime struggle to envision themselves and navigate in White-dominant spaces due to deficit thinking. To better understand how DEIA efforts can…
Not a token! A discussion on racial capitalism and its impact on academic librarians and libraries
Silvia VongThe purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of racial capitalism in the context of academic libraries.
Situating LIS pedagogy and curriculum in diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and anti-racism: a reflection on process
Jade G. Winn, Melissa L. Miller, Caroline Muglia, Christopher Stewart, Ruth WallachA working group of Masters in Management of Library and Information Science (MMLIS) Librarian Faculty was formed to address diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and…
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- Ms Sarah Barbara Watstein