#Critical Conversations
in LIS 2024:
Celebrating Black Men in Librarianship
At the University of South Carolina, the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair, Dr. Nicole Cooke, has the honor of teaching a course entitled Critical Cultural Information Studies!
As part of this course (description below), there are amazing guest lectures that are being opened up to the larger LIS community (free and online)! Please join us for these tough, enlightening, action focused conversations!
Sessions will be held via Zoom on Thursday afternoons, at 4pm EDT, and they will be recorded and posted on this site at a later date.
Course Description
This course examines how issues of diversity, social justice, race, gender and sexuality are represented in the information professions and will study how these social imperatives affect, and are affected by, information technologies. Socially constructed (mis)representations (or lack of representations) of race, gender and sexual identity will be critically examined in different settings as they intersect, overlap, and impact the information use, technology practices, and the design of information resources and services in the processes of creation, organization, and dissemination of information in library and information science and related fields. This course will also provide a historical and contemporary overview of social justice and advocacy work in librarianship during the 20th and 21st centuries. The role of information services in social action will also be explored and the course will introduce prominent philosophical and pedagogical concepts related to social justice, as well as researchers and proponents of marginalized or “underserved” groups.
Register at the links below
A Conversation with
Dr. Jerome Offord
Dr. Jerome Offord
Moderated By Gerald Moore
Session Recording:
A Conversation with
Jamar Rahming
Jamar Rahming
Moderated By Tamara King
A Conversation with Kelvin Watson
Moderated By Randy Heath
A Conversation with Shamichael Hallman
Moderated By Ray Turner
Check Out all of these links from Mr. Freeman
Good Morning America Segment: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/hear-untold-story-black-librarians-104253571
Are You A Librarian Pre Interviews:
https://youtu.be/ymGCff0iJ4o?feature=shared
Are You A Librarian Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuAoj6Mz3k
Are You A Librarian Promo: https://youtu.be/EnoDGI51hOo?feature=shared
Live Chat - "Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians" Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/live/jsbAeH78Muo?feature=shared
School Library Journal article: https://www.slj.com/story/Documentary-Film-to-Spotlight-black-Librarianship
Children's Author Rodney Freeman and His Book 'Little Rodney the Librarian: