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READCON: A Curriculum for Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment During Challenging Conditions
Get PDFThis panel introduces the READCON curriculum: Library Readiness, Advocacy, and Community Empowerment During Challenging Conditions The curriculum equips library workers with soft skills to develop relationships with their communities, partnering more effectively for advocacy. Building on the highly successful Get Ready Stay Ready Community Action Toolkit (GRSR), this curriculum builds foundational skills for library workers to engage in constructive dialogue on potentially divisive aspects of library programming, service, and material challenges. READCON takes Get Ready Stay Ready a step further by providing library workers with the soft skills needed to encourage community members to use the action steps included in the GRSR toolkit. Both resources are highly adaptable, multi-lingual, open-source learning tools developed by experts in academic, public, and school librarianship, education and family law, crisis communications, community advocacy and relations, and youth leadership
gender.network
Get PDFGender.network is an artist project, a growing digital archive of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, ephemera, and other visual culture from the 1960s-90s, created by trans*, two-spirit, nonbinary, and trans-adjacent activists, organizers, and artists. The curation of this archive has been guided by hundreds of conversations and interviews with trans and queer elders, community members, archivists, and scholars. This essay reflects on the tension between the competing needs of the archive of “things” that this project is identifying and organizing, and the living communities that this project seeks to serve. As an attempt to bridge these two poles, this essay listens to some of the voices and strategies of the history of trans* visual and print culture
Introduction: Trans New Media Art as Embodied Practice
Get PDFGuest edited by Ace Lehner (University of Vermont) and Chelsea Thompto (Virginia Tech) this special issue of Media-N titled Trans New Media as Embodied Practice asks: How do trans artists engage generatively with new media? In what ways does lived trans experience inform artistic practices? How do trans new media practices diverge and intersect with queer practices? The articles, artist projects, interview, and review in this issue engage with the political and embodied experience of making and engaging with new media as a trans person
Hong Kong’s Anime: A Cultural History of Anime in Hong Kong’s Last Decade
Get PDFIn 2019 and 2020, Hong Kong experienced waves of anti-government protests, with millions participating both online and offline. The semiotic of transnational popular culture references, including film and music, played a crucial role in these protests. Japanese animation and manga were especially prominent in online and offline communication, in the form of memes, slogans, videos, and activist art produced mostly by people under 29 years of age. Namely, anime and manga became not only the primary audio-visual language of the protests but also a transnational pop digital anarchist network between Hong Kong and the rest of the world. This article refers to this phenomenon as “Hong Kong’s anime” due to its unique transformation, adaptation, and sociocultural and political significance during these protests. Anime has a heterogeneous history as both institutional soft power and non-institutionalized fandom. While acknowledging the heterogeneous landscape of anime, this article focuses on its potential as a “transnational pop digital anarchist network” by analyzing its role in shaping people’s transnational cultural history and in writing people’s historiography. Based on interviews with the creators of protest art and the analysis of online and offline content, Hong Kong’s anime is revealed to be a new form of transnational historiography, emerging from transnational pop digital anarchist networks and connecting ordinary people in Hong Kong and worldwide through anime
A Brief History of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
Get PDFA brief history of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies over our first five years of publication
Current and Future Directions for School Media Specialists
Get PDFSchool media specialists have served as technological experts for their schools and have been pioneers with digital natives, helping create good digital citizens and addressing digital gaps for learners and advocate for access no matter what barriers students face. School of Library and Information Science programs have focused on creating a curriculum that will help create a school technology expert for every school library. This served schools well during the COVID-19 shutdowns, where the school had to find new ways for students to learn remotely.School media specialists have now become the target of hate in their schools. This has become increasingly complicated with states legislating what can be put in school libraries and how teachers can address historical events. School media specialists are required to make decisions on access or potentially losing their jobs. While these are important areas, they are just a small part of the job for school media specialists. The American Association of School Librarians has increased the expected role for school media specialists, having them often serve as teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, and program administrator, all in addition to serving as the expert technologist at their school. However, not all school media programs take this approach to pedagogy for school media.School media specialists create technological opportunities for schools and are a key source for teachers seeking to reach students with diverse learning styles while informing and building relationships with families on internet safety and other important topics. Teachers depend on school media specialists to provide resources and support for the classroom while school media specialists also support students’ intellectual freedom. Ultimately, the focus for school media specialists has been to try to create a school library that represents everyone’s values. While this sounds ideal, it has been a difficult road for the profession.The position of school media specialist has changed dramatically over the last four years. This panel seeks to address research contributions to scholarship on school media specialists and how Schools of Library and Information Science are changing their programs to prepare school media specialists for the workforce. There will be a moderator and a panel comprised of four faculty members who are educators, practitioners, and researchers specializing in school media. Their perspectives and expertise will be present in this discussion, along with the following discussion topics:What are your current research findings telling you?What are practitioners experiencing?What is working with educational pedagogy in school media?What is not working with educational pedagogy in school media?What new technologies have you incorporated into the curriculum?What changes are being made at Schools of Information Science programs to help ready students for the current environment?The panel will explore questions of education, research, and practitioner-based experiences to address concerns impacting school media specialists. The information will inform the future discussion and curriculum pedagogy for school media specialists. The panel discussion will be formatted around the expertise of the faculty with school media. These discussions will inform pedagogical teaching practices in school media programs and hopefully provide a framework for improvement
Generative AI-ChatGPT’s Impact in Health Science Libraries
Get PDFThis study explores the integration of ChatGPT into library services, as well as the perceived benefits and challenges associated with its utilization. Through qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews with eleven health science librarians, insights were gained. The findings highlighted the challenge of building trust in the reliability and accuracy of ChatGPT, emphasizing the need for evaluation, monitoring, and addressing data privacy concerns. Integrating generative AI ChatGPT into library systems was found to enhance efficiency and assist patrons, but technical challenges such as glitches and downtime were reported. Librarians recognized the importance of caution and transparency when delivering ChatGPT-generated results to patrons. Balancing efficiency with accuracy and security emerged as a critical consideration. This study contributes to our understanding of the integration of generative AI in health science librarianship, providing insights that can inform future research and guide practical implementations in this field
Public Youth Services Librarians’ Perceptions Towards and Experiences in Promoting Teens’ Positive Mental Health: A Mixed Methods Study
Get PDFOver the last decade, teen mental health has declined rapidly. In Florida, high rates of youth mental health concerns and lowered access to care led to its ranking as the 19th worst in the nation. To help address these issues, a “whole community” approach to mental health promotion has been advocated, with public libraries identified as potential partners. But research exploring public youth librarians’ perceptions and experiences related to this agenda is lacking. Informed by Seligman’s well-being theory, this study addresses that gap by exploring public youth librarians’ perceptions towards and experiences in promoting teens’ positive mental health through an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design consisting of surveys of and interviews with Florida public librarians responsible for teen services.
Survey results (n=183) showed that most librarians viewed promoting teens’ positive mental health as an important part of their role and engaged in a variety of related activities. But challenges in carrying out these activities were identified as well as concerns related to professional boundaries and training. Interviews (n=30) further explored how librarians define the scope of their role and their experiences, including any training and support received and challenges related to promoting teens’ positive mental health. Findings provide greater understanding of what members of the profession are doing and what they perceive as their role in response to declining teen mental health, thus improving service provision by informing future education and training efforts and the development of new models for how to best promote teens’ mental health through a holistic lens
Latine Students’ Sense of Belonging in LIS: A Critical-Constructivist Grounded Theory Study
Get PDFAs the United States population becomes more ethnically and racially diverse, efforts to address issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice have increased in Library and Information Science (LIS) Education programs that seek to recruit and graduate diverse students. However, very little is known about the lived experiences of ethnically and racially diverse students in LIS schools. Moreover, while the Hispanic population in the Nation grows exponentially, Latine LIS students have been largely absent as subjects of professional literature.
This dissertation explores the educational experience of Latine students in LIS and what facilitates or hinders their sense of belonging. With a qualitative approach of critical-constructivist grounded theory, the researcher explored the students’ experience through interviews and focus groups, seeking to identify characteristics of their experience as Latine students and elements that contribute to their sense of belonging. The poster includes preliminary findings and initial recommendations for LIS Education encompassed in a model of sense of belonging of Latine LIS students. By exploring Latine students’ sense of belonging with a critical theory lens, the knowledge obtained will contribute to the creation of a welcoming and meaningful educational experience so that Latine students feel that they are valued in the LIS programs they attend, and that they belong to the LIS field as professionals.
The Ethics and Truth of Disability Access: An Information Perspective
Get PDFThe Disabilities in LIS SIG session features presentations on a wide array of disability and accessibility-related topics. The session consists of three sets of 10-minute research and experience-based talks followed by discussion.
The first section begins with Copeland, Kawooya, Robinson and Swartzendruber discussing the findings of the pilot study focused on the “Equitable Access for the Blind, Visually Impaired, and Print-Disabled (BVIPD) Students in Online Learning” (funded by USC). Day continues the accessibility theme with an examination of “Accessibility of Academic Reading Materials: Insights from Librarians, Students, and Disability services” while Phillips and Anderson consider innovative best practices in “Accessibility Over Accommodations: Inclusive Teaching Practices for Neurodivergent Students” with a special focus on teaching graduate students.
The second section begins with Dreeszen Bowen and Dudak’s “Beyond Accessibility: Empowering Physically Disabled Voices in Academia and Librarianship” where the authors explore specific problems of doctoral program expectations of conference participation and travel for students with disabilities. In “Not your story to tell: Amplifying the Voices of Disabled Library Workers” Velez reports on a critical bibliography of North American library disability studies literature from 2010 to 2022 and considers the important issue of not simply viewing disability as a “problem” to solve, but rather to considering the real needs of people with disabilities in the library profession and ensuring their voices are heard as participants or investigators in the research process.
The third section begins with a report on the IMLS-funded grant “Public library makerspaces and maker programming for youth with disabilities: Experiences of librarians” with results reported by Jung, Abbas, and Munyao while in the final presentation, “Disability and Inclusion in 10 Seconds and Less: Researching, Collaborating, and Storytelling in TikTok Information World(s)” Lundy highlights the ability of social media to give a voice to people with disabilities and also considers the difficulties encountered in conducting research as a person with disabilities.