IDEAL19

Individual presentations are approximately 15 minutes each. There will be time at the end for Q&A.

Individual Presentation A: Queering identity: critique, self-exploration and social justice. (Sara Howard & Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz)
This dual talk will be a critical investigation into gender & sexuality identity within librarianship using a social justice framework. The two LGBT subject specialists seek to problematize the profession by challenging the librarian to focus inwardly to a space concentrated with identity and self-exploration and examine the how gender and sexuality influences the ways we provide library services, calling attention to our roles as librarians in responding to social justice.

Individual Presentation B: Uncontrolled Feminism: Using Social Tagging in a Citation Manager to Create an Equitable Folksonomy (Amber Wilson and Dr. Taine Duncan)
Libraries must acknowledge that the patriarchal structure inherent to controlled vocabularies suppresses students' access to and engagement with information. How can we demonstrate the value of critical research while also encouraging a collaborative, equitable research vocabulary? Bring your laptops and join us as we explore Zotero tagging function to synthesize a vocabulary rooted in feminist philosophy.

Individual Presentation C: Do More of What You Want to Do (Ciara Healy)
Drawing explicitly on Sara Ahmed's work on diversity initiatives in universities, this individual presentation will unpack the affordances of library instruction, course/discipline specific or basic bibliographic/information literacy instruction, as a rich site of resistance within in a traditional university classroom. Specifically, what is at stake when equity and inclusion is included or even foregrounded in library instruction?

Cultural wealth theories assume students to be knowledge bearers and that they bring community assets to campus. Asset approaches to learning seek to amplify and build upon the cultural knowledge and lived experiences of students of color and first generation students.  This session discusses the theory and application of asset-based learning in Information Literacy with examples from a first year learning community and a hip hop research course.

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Numbers of mixed race individuals are growing, though they are often invisible on our campuses. How can academic libraries insure they are serving the sometimes unique needs of these individuals and those conducting mixed race research? We will share ways to collaborate with faculty, departments and student groups to promote library programs, collections and services to better support mixed race researchers and individuals.

As the field diversifies, our colleagues bring with them perspectives that will shake up the world of librarianship! What happens when you can ‚"walk it like you talk it," but feel cut off at the knees professionally?Join two early career young women of color to discuss the 1,000,001 unwritten rules of librarianship.This roundtable is for participants who want to better understand their colleagues & anyone who's ever felt misunderstood or silenced.

According to the American Library Association Membership Survey, librarianship is a profession
with highly skewed gender, age, class, and race demographics. The vast majority of librarians
identify as women, however, the majority of management positions are held by librarians who
identify men. This poster presentation will summarize the results of an exploratory, qualitative study of gender identity and performance in librarianship.

This poster session will introduce the idea of information privilege outreach via "problem posing" as a component of information literacy instruction in order to enhance the understanding of the concept  students in information literacy classes and present a pedagogical concept for information literacy instructors in order to engage students in a critical way regarding their information access within academia.

If cultural competence is about bridging across differences that make a difference, then the work must start with a focus onself.

Journalistic and Copy Editing best practices are shifting or have shifted to state that it is always incorrect to include a trans person's legal name unless you've spoken to the person in question and received permission. Why haven't cataloging best practices? This poster looks at the apparent point of conflict between discoverability and trans inclusion and hopes to destabilize the notion that these are mutually exclusive.