Collections Decoded: Reflections and Strategies for Anti-racist Collection Development

Operating from three distinct but interlocking perspectives as a Black woman archivist, a White woman anti-racist public librarian, and a Black woman academic librarian, we will facilitate a discussion about our experiences navigating collection development and collection development policies. Together we will acknowledge and address the disparities of race in collection development practices and discuss practical strategies for developing an anti-racist agenda at our institutions. We will also discuss how anti-racist accomplices can both support and follow the lead of Black women librarians and archivists as well as strategies for developing anti-racist collection developmentpractices

Creating Brave Spaces: The POC Summit as Community Building

While there have been efforts to increase diversity programming in LIS, there is still progress to be made in highlighting the voices and research interests of marginalized identities. In Summer 2018, the William H. Hannon Library at LMU held its first People of Color in Library and Information Science (POC in LIS) Summit to create a brave space for POC narratives and support research interests. In this workshop, the presenters will discuss the summit as a leadership opportunity to create a POC space in LIS. The presenters will: 1) examine issues of inequity in conference organization in order to apply changes to conference content and planning and 2) identify strategies for planning and organizing a grassroots conference in order to promote inclusivity and accessibility in the profession

The reniform reflecting superposition compound eyes of Nephrops norvegicus: optics, susceptibility to light-induced damage, electrophysiology and a ray tracing model

The large reniform eyes of the reptant, tube-dwelling decapod Nephrops norvegicus are described in detail. Optically these reflecting superposition compound eyes are a little unusual in that they are laterally flattened, a feature that may enhance their sensitivity in that region, albeit at the expense of resolution. Electrophysiological and anatomical investigations suggest that the eyes are tuned to appropriate spectral and temporal sensitivities in the long and short term through movement of proximal pigments and possibly rhabdom adaptation. Although exposure to ambient surface light intensities is shown to cause damage to the retinal layer, especially in deeper living animals, there is no evidence yet that demonstrates an impact of eye damage on their survival. It is suggested that experimentation on marine decapods, with sensitive eyes, requires that particular attention is paid to their light environment

Fighting Infobesity: Creating A Healthy News Diet

We live in a continuous news culture where the average consumer must learn how to deal with information overload. We have plenty of information, but not all of it contributes to a healthy, balanced news diet. In addition to snacking on morning news and grabbing afternoon sound bites, there’s misinformation and fake news, packaged and sold in confusing ways. How can we get the news we need to become informed and engaged? In this activity, students are tasked with (a) placing a range of media sources on a grid whose axes are reliability and type of sources, and (b) articulating their reasoning and evidence for situating the sources where they did. The list of sources given for this exercise should be varied and present multiple perspectives and information genres that are open for debate or are ambiguous. Students will marinate on the format, authority, and context in which sources are produced and disseminated. This is a highly versatile activity; most features can be modified for any palette or cooking time

People of Color in Library and Information Science Impact Report

While there are many conferences for information workers, very few highlight the voices of marginalized identities and provide a platform for discussion for their research interests. According to a 2010 American Library Association survey, 88% of credentialed librarians identify as white. In our vision for this summit and the future of libraries, People of Color in Library and Information Science Summit at Loyola Marymount University encouraged the representation of diverse topics and perspectives and as a part of this work acknowledged that the racial disparities we see in the library and information science (LIS) field reflect inequities in other parts of society.These discrepancies challenge our ability to empathize, converse, and collaborate. We hosted the POC in LIS Summit to foster collaborations and encourage conversations within our field

PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OE TECHNICAL PROEILE SPECIALISTS

The article is devoted to the problem ofprofessional training of technical specialists. The author analyzes in de¬tail and reveals the content of the main structural components of engineering and psychological competence: cognitive, communicative, managerial, reflexive, motivational and professional psychological

Community-building, empowering voices and brave spaces through LIS professional conferences

This chapter centers on the experience of four Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) academic librarians who conceived, planned, and executed a local one-day in-person summit for BIPOC information workers in 2018 and an online version in 2021. The POCinLIS Summit celebrated and uplifted BIPOC information workers from the public, private and academic fields of LIS. Since libraries were established, information systems and institutions have prioritized and normalized whiteness. To amplify and bolster BIPOC siloed in their work, the Summit sought to create counterspaces unaffiliated with a professional organization or traditional LIS conference spaces. To address why BIPOC-centered programs are vital to the success of the LIS field, this chapter will first examine issues of inequity in conference organization and whiteness in LIS in both conference content and planning. It will also describe the steps the summit organizers took to encourage conversations regarding inclusivity and accessibility in the profession. Practical suggestions for creating similar styled events will also be provided along with resources and lessons learned from the organizers, including the decision to move to an online format in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

Empowering collaborations and creating brave spaces: People of Color in Library and Information Science Summit

The William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California, held the first People of Color in Library and Information Science (POC in LIS) Summit on July 13, 2018. The summit was a collaborative planning effort by LMU librarians to create a productive and brave space for POC, especially women and marginalized identities, working in the information sector. The POC in LIS Summit invited participants to challenge their roles as information workers and acknowledge that dominant narratives may be disrupted