Resources

Additional links on the session topics and other resources

• CiLIS Books Collection
• Collaborative Glossary
• Who is a Librarian?
  • Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
  • So you want to be a librarian?
  • Gender Demographics and Perception in Librarianship
  • The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action
  • The Stereotype Stereotype
  • Fugitive Libraries

• The Job Search
  • MLIS Skills at Work
  • Check out the Career Info page
  • 50+ Alternative Careers for Librarians
  • Swarthmore Libraries Organizational Chart
  • U of Washington Libraries Organizational Chart

• Critical Information Literacy
  • Inclusive Citation (video 1 hour 28min)
  • The Racial Politics of Citation
  • Evaluating Sources with ACT UP

• Universal Design for Learning
  • UDL at a Glance (video 4:36mins)
  • When It Comes to Universal Design for Learning, Don’t Wait to Be an Expert
  • UDL in Library Instruction

• Cataloging
  • #OwnVoices Selections
  • Rex’s Slides
  • Change the Subject (documentary – 54 min)
  • Metadata (book chapter)
  • Interview with Jill Baron, a librarian featured in Change the Subject, who discusses social justice and library history.
  • Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • What Dorothy Porter’s Life Meant to Black Studies (written by a former Swarthmore library intern)

• Open Access Publishing
  • Open Access Explained (video)
  • Suber, Peter. Open Access. MIT Press, 2012 (book; intro to the history and vocabulary of open access)
  • Covid-19 Shows That Scientific Journals Need to Open Up (good background on journal publishing)
  • Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz (lots of articles about Aaron Swartz, e.g., Requiem for a Dream (New Yorker, March 13, 2013))
  • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) (advocacy/support for OA and OER in academia/academic libraries)
  • The Internet Archive is making books available online to all through controlled digital lending
  • More links here
• Whose Knowledge?
• A History of US Libraries (DPLA)
• Academic Libraries Panel Series – for new and prospective MLIS students
• Afternoon of Social Justice Recordings
• Augusta Baker Diversity Programming – Part of a Children, Libraries and Literacy Initiative at USC