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Session 3a: "Connecting With The Library (Under)Commons”: Building Community Through Class Solidarity As Anticolonial Praxis, Luz Badillo, Selina Portera, Lawrence Maminta
Session 3a: "Connecting With The Library (Under)Commons”: Building Community Through Class Solidarity As Anticolonial Praxis, Luz Badillo, Selina Portera, Lawrence Maminta
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The Library and Information Science field is often critiqued for its overwhelming whiteness. In spite of overt racial diversification efforts by institutions and professional organizations, white supremacy remains a constant structuring force in many LIS workplaces, even in places where the leadership and administration is staffed by people who “look like us.” These conditions are a result of classism and typifies how recognition and representation has not made the field any more welcoming to racialized non-white people. It has become abundantly clear that the process of professionalization functions as a way of incorporating MLIS students into whiteness and the lack …
Session 3b: Findings From The Research And Program Development Phase Of The Bipoc Become Librarians Project, Hyokyung (Carrie) Hwang, Michele A. L. Villagran
Session 3b: Findings From The Research And Program Development Phase Of The Bipoc Become Librarians Project, Hyokyung (Carrie) Hwang, Michele A. L. Villagran
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Responding to the ongoing lack of diversity in LIS, the BIPOC Become Librarians (BBL) project exposes more Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students to Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) career paths by focusing on mentorships and internships, both of which have an impact on increasing diversity. Our project is funded by a Programming Planning Grant from the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian initiative to focus on research, mentorship, and internship training. This program will help demystify the profession of librarianship to BIPOC undergraduates by providing guidance and hands-on learning. BBL will encourage students from diverse …
Lightning Talk: The Cruel Optimism In Becoming A Librarian, Nicole Murph
Lightning Talk: The Cruel Optimism In Becoming A Librarian, Nicole Murph
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Librarianship tends to be presented from an optimistic view, and although some of that optimism is true, the reality of becoming a librarian can be a form of cruel optimism. Dylan Burns and Hailley Fargo (2019) used Lauren Berlant’s (2011) cruel optimism to explore the emotional experiences involved in the promise of becoming a librarian, yet it is “…out of reach for nearly a third of LIS graduates” (Burns & Fargo, 2019). Transitioning to librarianship is a big step especially for those experiencing a mid-career transition. The time, cost(s), and emotional energy involved include going back to school, gaining experience …
Lightning Talk: Resisting The Institutionalization Of Deia: Border Thinking And Academic Librarianship, Blanca Garcia-Barron
Lightning Talk: Resisting The Institutionalization Of Deia: Border Thinking And Academic Librarianship, Blanca Garcia-Barron
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As BIPOC library workers, we often have a complicated relationship to DEIA work within our respective institutions. Some of us embrace it. Some of us reject it, and others remain cautious but continue to contribute to it. Whatever our relationship is to DEIA, all our perspectives and experiences are valid. Border Thinking as a concept, formed by Gloria Anzaldua and later adopted and developed further by decolonial scholars like Walter Mignolo, highlights the knowledge produced outside of colonial systems. Border Thinking not only legitimizes this knowledge, but lived experience, as well. This lightning talk explores the framework of Border Thinking …
Lightning Talk: Historic Chronology Of Black Library Education, Katie Perry, Selena Lee
Lightning Talk: Historic Chronology Of Black Library Education, Katie Perry, Selena Lee
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Historic Chronology of Black Library Education: What Can We Learn About Retention and Recruitment Librarianship has historically struggled with a lack of racial and ethnic diversity. Although Black Americans make up about 13.6% of the population, only 4% of LIS students identify as Black. While there have been ongoing efforts to diversify the profession, Black Librarianship is in a state of regression. Our goal in this study is to address the question of how the history of Black LIS education could inform or impact the present. In understanding the development and early models of professional education for Black Librarians, as …
Lightning Talk: The Application Of Indigenous Knowledge And Theory To Decolonize A Non-Native Cultural Museum Collections, Maile Chung
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Through a year-long research grant with the National Museum of Korea, I worked with the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture in Seattle to decolonize its Korea Collections utilizing Indigenous Knowledge and Theory. The goal was to shift the previously White-curated collections to a Korean community centered collections that has better representation of our heritage. I created an accessible step-by-step guide that students and community members can use to perform similar assessments on their own community collections, providing an opportunity to break down the barriers and fears that BIPOC people face when wanting to work with a collections that …
Session 2b: Racelighting: Understanding Experiences With Questioning Our Own Realities, Terezita Overduin
Session 2b: Racelighting: Understanding Experiences With Questioning Our Own Realities, Terezita Overduin
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My first two years as a BIPOC community college librarian were fraught with confusing interpersonal and organizational interactions. I had trouble navigating the work environment, the organizational structure, and the closed-door approach to library work. I felt that I wasn’t understanding something, that I was doing something wrong, and that my work wasn’t valuable. However, after finding a community with other faculty and staff, I came to understand that this was a pervasive problem within the library department and even the institution as a whole. I also discovered that the confusion and doubt I experienced as a product of institutional …
Session 2c: "My Skinfolks But Not My Kinfolks": Searching For Kinship In Libraryland, Ayanna Gaines
Session 2c: "My Skinfolks But Not My Kinfolks": Searching For Kinship In Libraryland, Ayanna Gaines
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Since 2021, I have been working on a book chapter for a co-edited book entitled "Women of Color Practicing Sisterhood: Reflections from Community Intersections." My work on this chapter has inspired me to remember and reflect on my past as a young Black girl in Denver, and how that has affected me as a professional Black woman in Southern California. As a woman of color in academic libraries, I have worked with precious few people of color. In addition, since moving to California in 2006, I have had no opportunity to live in a diverse environment due to family commitments. …
Session 2b: Reversing White Yearning: A Brown And Queer Filipinx Librarian’S Exorcism Of Colonialism And Veneration Of Indigenous Ancestry (A Work In Progress), Joseph Kevin Sebastian
Session 2b: Reversing White Yearning: A Brown And Queer Filipinx Librarian’S Exorcism Of Colonialism And Veneration Of Indigenous Ancestry (A Work In Progress), Joseph Kevin Sebastian
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This session outlines my progress in an autotheoretical project exploring the tensions between my intersectional identities as a queer, immigrant, and brown citizen, and their connections with my experiences navigating the institutional whiteness of librarianship. As part of the Philippine diaspora, I've struggled with the legacies of Spanish and American colonialism manifesting in a psychic "self-sabotaging pathology" induced by "epistemic violence. . . wrought on a people’s psyche when their sense of themselves and their world is exploded through denigration, demonisation, delegitimation or simply, disallowance" (Mendoza 2017). By recounting my journey to becoming a librarian, I draw parallels between the …