Sample Instruction & Advising

LBSC602: Serving Information Needs

LBSC713: Planning & Evaluating Information Service

LBSC706: Seminar on Comparative & International Librarianship

INST610: Information Ethics

INST352: Information User Needs and Assessment

INST799: Immigration and Information

Advisees - Manuel Mendez (Ph.D. student), Kurubel Belay (Ph.D. student), Hayley Park (Ph.D. student)

Select Leadership & Service
Director,  i3r Research Alliance
Member, Association for LIS Education (ALISE)
Member, Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
Lifetime Member, American Library Association (ALA)
Past Chair, ALA Serving Information Refugees, Immigrants & Displaced Persons (SRIDP) Committee
Lifetime Member and iBlackCaucus Co-Sponsor,  Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)
Lifetime Member and Afro-Latine Affinity Group Facilitator,  REFORMA: National Association for Library Services to Latinos & Spanish Speaking 

Representative Research & Scholarly Activities
Edited Books

Burns-Simpson, S.; Hayes, N.M.; Walker, S.; & Ndumu, A. (2022). The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening. Rowman & Littlefield.

Ndumu, A., ed. (2021). Borders & belonging: Critical examinations of library approaches toward immigrants. Library Juice Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Ndumu, A., Park, H., & Siebold, C. (2025). Library Workers’ Perceptions of Immigrant Acculturation: Renewed Understandings for Changing Contexts. Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice, 20(4), 8–43. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30823

Ndumu, A., & Park, H. (2025). From the Committee on Work with the Foreign Born (CWFB) to the Serving Refugees, Immigrants, and Displaced Persons (SRIDP) Committee: Chronicling US Race Relations, Immigration Policy, and Library Engagement with Immigrants of Color. Library Quarterly, 95, 3. https://doi.org/10.1086/735796

Ndumu, A., & Park, H. (2025). Upholding Trust in Library Partnerships with Immigrants: Reflections on the Impact of Trump 2024. The Political Librarian, 8. https://doi.org/10.7936/pollib.9015

Ndumu, A., & Onianwah, M. (2025). Daughters Online: Identity Formation and Information Behavior Among Undergraduate Women of African Immigrant Heritage. Information & Culture, 60(2), 167-193. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/968588/pdf

Ndumu, A., Walker, S., Burns-Simpson, S., Hayes, N.M., Mack, T. (2022). Space, story, and solidarity: Designing a Black MLIS student organization amidst crisis and tumult. Education for Information, 38(4), 367-388. https://content.iospress.com/articles/education-for-information/efi220040

Ndumu, A. (2021). Shifts: How changes in the U.S. Black population impact racial inclusion and representation in LIS education. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 62(2), 137-161. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis.62.2.03

Ndumu, A., & Chancellor, R. (2021). DuMont, 35 Years Later: HBCUs, LIS education, and institutional discrimination. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 62(2), 162-181. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis.2019-0076

Ndumu, A., & Mabi, M. (2021). “(Information) Poor, huddled masses?”: Chatman’s contribution to understanding contemporary immigrant settlement experiences. Journal of Critical Librarianship and Information Science. http://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/145

Ndumu, A. (2020). Toward a new understanding of immigrant information behavior: Information overload among U.S. immigrants. Journal of Documentation. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2019-0066

Conference Preceedings

Ndumu, A., Park, H., & Siebold, C. (2026). Understanding Immigrant Information Acculturation: Perspectives and Recommendations For Information Behaviour Research. Information Research, 31(ISIC), 415-440. https://publicera.kb.se/ir/article/download/65229/52935

Ndumu, A., & Orie Chuku, N. (2023). Anti-Black racism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and misinformation: A recipe for profound societal harm. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 677-680 https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23739231/2023/60/1

Ndumu, A., Mabi, M., & Oduntan, O. (2022). Preliminary Findings from a Scoping Review of Immigrant‐Related Information Poverty Research in LIS. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 458-463 https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23739231/2022/59/1

Worrall, A.; Ndumu, A.; & Hammond, L.G. (2022). Sentiment and Network Analysis of  Twitter reactions to the U.S. birthright citizenship ban controversy. Proceedings from the 2022 iConference Annual Meeting, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8#toc