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Trauma Informed Interviewing: Interviewing With Empathy And Protecting Oral History Narrators, Kelley Flannery Rowan

Works of the FIU Libraries

This presentation discusses best privacy practice in the context of creating oral histories with narrators dealing with trauma. This was a panel discussion and this presentation represents content from this speaker only.

Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez

Works of the FIU Libraries

This poster will attempt to apply the techniques used in Queer Theory to explore library and information science’s use and misuse of library classification systems; and to examine how “queering” these philosophical categories can not only improve libraries, but also help change social constructs.

For millennia, philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, have used and expounded upon categories and systems of classification. Their purpose is to make research and the retrieval of information easier. Unfortunately, the rules used to categorize and catalog make information retrieval more challenging for some, due to social constructs such as heteronormality.

The importance of this …