Social Justice in LIS Instruction: A Reading List

Today I am graduating with my master’s degree in Library & Information Science (MLISc)! To celebrate, I wanted to share this list of academic articles, books, libguides, monographs, and websites, all related to Social Justice in LIS Instruction. This list is a resource my friend Holiday and I shared with attendees of our round table discussion at the Hawaiʻi Library Association’s 2018 conference. Please comment if you have anything to add, or comments or questions.

Social Justice & LIS

Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2016). ​Blindspot: Hidden biases of good people​. New York: Bantam.

Baum, C. D. (1992). ​Feminist thought in American librarianship​. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Beales, S. (2017). Social justice and library work: A guide to theory and practice. Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing.

Berman, S. (1993). ​Prejudices and antipathies: A tract on the LC subject heads concerning people.​ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (2000). ​Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences​. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Eddo-Lodge, R. (2018). ​Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race​. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Farkas, M. (2017). Never neutral: Critical librarianship and technology. ​American Libraries Magazine​. Retrieved from: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/01/03/never-neutral-critlib-technology/​.

Hildenbrand, S. (1996). ​Reclaiming the American library past: Writing the women in​. Westport,

CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Hankins, R., & Juárez, M.(Eds.). (2015). Where are all the librarians of color?: The experiences of people of color in academia​. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Mehra, B., & Rioux, K. (2016). Progressive community action : Critical theory and social justice in library and information science. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Nicholson, K., & Seale, M. (2017). The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Noble, S. U. (2018). ​Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism​. New York: NYU Press.

Oluo, I. (2018). ​So you want to talk about race.​ UK: Hachette.

Sandel, M. J. (2010). ​Justice: What’s the right thing to do?​ London, UK: Macmillan.

Stockdill, B. (2012). ​Transforming the ivory tower: Challenging racism, sexism, and homophobia in the academy.​ Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

LIS Curriculum

Adkins, D., Virden, C., & Yier, C. (2015). Learning about diversity: The roles of LIS education, LIS associations, and lived experience. ​The Library Quarterly​, ​85​(2), 139–149.

Cooke, N., & Sweeney, M. E. (2017). ​Teaching for justice: Implementing social justice in the LIS classroom.​ Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Cooke, N. A., Sweeney, M. E., & Noble, S. U. (2016). Social justice as topic and tool: An attempt to transform an LIS curriculum and culture. ​The Library Quarterly​, ​86​(1), 107–124.

Hathcock, A. (2015). White librarianship in blackface: Diversity initiatives in LIS. ​In the Library with the Lead Pipe.​ Retrieved from: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/​.

Irvin, V. (2016). Gazing the diversity stance in North America: Bringing practitioner inquiry into the LIS classroom. ​Journal of Education for Library and Information Science​, 57(2), 151-160.

Jaeger, P. T., Cooke, N. A., Feltis, C., Hamiel, M., Jardine, F., & Shilton, K. (2015). The virtuous circle revisited: Injecting diversity, inclusion, rights, justice, and equity into LIS from education to advocacy. ​The Library Quarterly,​ ​85(​ 2), 150-171.

Jaeger, P. T., Subramaniam, M. M., Jones, C. B., & Bertot, J. C. (n.d.). Diversity and LIS Education: Inclusion and the age of information. ​Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 19.

Kumasi, K. D., & Manlove, N. L. (2015). Finding “diversity levers” in the core Library and Information Science curriculum: A social justice imperative. ​Library Trends​, ​64​(2), 415–443.

Percell, J., Sarin, Lindsay C., Jaeger, P. T., & Bertot, J. C. (2018). Re-envisioning the MLS: Perspectives on the future of library and information science education (Advances in librarianship). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

Roberts, S. T., & Noble, S. U. (2016). Empowered to name, inspired to act: Social responsibility and diversity as calls to action in the LIS context. ​Library Trends​, ​64​(3), 512–532.

Stanley, L. (1997). ​Knowing feminisms: On academic borders, territories and tribes​. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Subramaniam, M., & Jaeger, P. T. (2011). Weaving diversity into LIS: An examination of diversity course offerings in iSchool programs. ​Education for Information, 28​(1), 1-19.

Vinopal, J. (2016). The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action. ​In the Library with the Lead Pipe. ​Retrieved from: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/quest-for-diversity/​.

Wertheimer, A., & Asato, N. (2018, November). Going beyond technical requirements: The call for a more interdisciplinary curriculum for educating digital librarians. ​International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries,​ 348-355.

Critical & Feminist Pedagogy

Accardi, M. T. (2013). ​Feminist pedagogy for library instruction​. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Accardi, M., Drabinski, E., & Kumbier, A. (2010). ​Critical library instruction: Theories and methods. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Agarwal, R., Epstein, S., Oppenheim, R., Oyler, C., & Sonu, D. (2010). From ideal to practice and back again: Beginning teachers teaching for social justice.​ Journal of Teacher Education, 61(​ 3), 237-247.

Critical Librarianship: ​http://critlib.org/recommended-readings/.

Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Anaheim, CA: Continuum.

Fritch, M. E. (2018). Teaching as a political act: Critical pedagogy in library instruction. Educational Considerations, 44​(1).

hooks, b. (1994). ​Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom​. New York: Routledge.

Kishimoto, K. (2018). Anti-racist pedagogy: from faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. ​Race Ethnicity and Education​, ​21​(4), 540–554.

Leckie, G. J., Given, L. M., & Buschman, J. (Eds.). (2010). ​Critical theory for library and information science: Exploring the social from across the disciplines​. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Pagowsky, N., & McElroy, K. (2016). Critical library pedagogy handbook. American Library Association.

Tejeda, C., Espinoza, M., & Gutierrez, K. (2003). Toward a decolonizing pedagogy: Social justice reconsidered. ​Pedagogies of difference: Rethinking education for social change, 9-38.

Specific to Hawaiʻi

Goodyear-Kaʻopua, N., Hussey, I., & Wright, E. K. A. (Eds.). (2014). ​A nation rising: Hawaiian movements for life, land, and sovereignty.​ Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Holt, G. (2016). ​Maʻo Organic Farms: E hānai lāhui (Feeding the Nation). Unpublished. Retrieved from: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50a184d4e4b05a733d15c7bc/t/576f89fc5016e1ce8 e45a546/1466927613586/Farms+%26+Libraries.pdf​.

Okamura, J. Y. (2014). ​From race to ethnicity: Interpreting Japanese American experiences in Hawaiʻi​. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Progressive Librarians Guild UH Mānoa Student Chapter: ​https://plgmanoa.wixsite.com/library​.

Project Mālama Kahoʻolawe. (2008). ​Mālama Kahoʻolawe Teacher’s Guide Grades 7-12. Project Mālama Kahoʻolawe. Retrieved from: http://ulukau.org/gsdl2.81/cgi-bin/cbmalama-full?a=d&cl=CL2&e=010off--00-1--0--010 ---4-------0-1l--11en---malama+kahoolawe--00-3-1-000--0-0-11000​.

Rohrer, J. (2016). ​Staking claim: Settler colonialism and racialization in Hawaiʻi​. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Rohrer, J. (2010). ​Haoles in Hawaiʻi.​ Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Shaindlin, V. B. (2018). ​Ruth Horie: An oral history biography and feminist analysis.​ (Master’s Thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database.

Stannard, D. (2008). ​The Hawaiians: Health, justice, and sovereignty​. In ​Fujikane, C., & Okamura, J. Y. (2008). ​Asian settler colonialism: From local governance to the habits of everyday life in Hawai‘​ ​i ​(p​p. 161-169)​. Honolulu: University of Hawai​‘​i Press.

Trask, H. K. (1999). ​From a native daughter: Colonialism and sovereignty in Hawaiʻi. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

UHM LIS Program Diversity Council: ​http://uhmlisdiversity.weebly.com/​. Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library: ​http://ulukau.org/​.

Information Literacy & Fake News

American Library Association. (2017). ​Resolution on access to accurate information​. ​American Library Association​. Retrieved from: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/statementspols/ifresolutions/accurateinformatio n.

American Library Association. (2005). ​Resolution on disinformation, media manipulation, and the destruction of public information.​ American Library Association. Retrieved from: http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL/PL26/068.pdf.

Cooke, N. (2018). ​Fake news and alternative facts: Information literacy in a post-truth era​. Chicago, IL: ​American Library Association.

Downey, A. (2016). ​Critical information literacy: Foundations, inspiration, and ideas.​ Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Gregory, L., Higgins, S., & Samek, T. (2013). ​Information literacy and social justice: Radical professional praxis.​ ​Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.

Never Neutral: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/01/03/never-neutral-critlib-technology/.

Saunders, L. (2017). Connecting information literacy and social justice: Why and how. Communications in Information Literacy,​ 11(1), 55-75.

Sullivan, M. (2018). Why librarians can’t fight fake news. ​Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

Our presentation:

Vega, H., & Shaindlin, V. B. (2018, November 17). ​Social Justice in Library Instruction.​ Roundtable discussion presented at the Hawai‘i Library Association Annual Conference.

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