Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D., is a professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. Since 2002 he has been exploring the intersection of teens and technology, with particular focus on cyberbullying, social networking, and sexting. He has traveled around the world training educators, counselors, law enforcement officers, parents, and youth on how to prevent the misuse of technology.

Dr. Patchin is co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center (www.cyberbullying.org) and has written eight books and numerous academic and professional articles on adolescent behaviors online. His first co-authored book: “Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying” was named Education Book of the Year in 2009 by ForeWord Reviews.

In 2014 he wrote “Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral” to help teens navigate online problems. His latest book is: “Bullying Today: Bullet Points and Best Practices.” He has presented at the White House and the FBI Academy and has appeared on CNN, NPR, and in the New York Times to discuss the issues associated with teens use and misuse of technology.

Twitter: @justinpatchin | @onlinebullying

Facebook: www.facebook.com/cyberbullyingresearch

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/patchin

Web: www.justinpatchin.com

CV: https://people.uwec.edu/patchinj/webvitae.htm

In the session, Dr. Phillips will discuss the intersection between cyberbullying, mental health issues, and library support. Cyberbullying has long lasting and devastating consequences on youth and adults alike. Through empathy and compassionate services, librarians and library workers have the opportunity to support and nurture those who are enduring cyberbullying in their everyday life.
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Dr. Abigail Phillips is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include cyberbullying, young adults, neurodiversity, empathy, autism, libraries, and librarianship. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a rural public librarian in southwest Georgia. Abigail can be reached via twitter: @abigailleigh and by email: abileigh@uwm.edu.

Over the past few years, tensions between two core values in U.S. librarianship, intellectual freedom and social justice, have roiled the profession. This conflict was most recently seen in the insertion and subsequent removal of “hate groups” to the list of entities that cannot be denied access to library meeting rooms in the American Library Association’s Meeting Rooms Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights. This talk is intended to provide context for this conflict. It also presents a possible solution for mitigating this tension using Danielle Allen’s (2015) flow dynamics model of discourse.
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Dr. Emily Knox is Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her book, Book Banning in 21st Century America (Rowman & Littlefield) is the first monograph in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars’ Series. She also recently edited Trigger Warnings: History, Theory Context (Rowman & Littlefield) and co-edited Foundations of Information Ethics (ALA). Her articles have been published in the Library Quarterly, Library and Information Science Research, and the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy.

Emily serves on the boards of the Beta Phi Mu. and the National Coalition Against Censorship. Her research interests include information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy, and the intersection of print culture and reading practices. She is also a member of the Mapping Information Access research team.

Emily received her Ph.D. from the doctoral program at the Rutgers University School of Communication & Information. Her master’s in library and information science is from the iSchool at Illinois. She also holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Smith College and an A.M. in the same field from The University of Chicago Divinity School.

Equity work in libraries and the larger LIS field is still carried primarily by marginalized library workers. As their vital work continues to uplift the field, it also attracts the attention of trolls and other bad actors in and outside librarianship. How have libraries and larger LIS organizations responded to the calls for support, protection, and crisis planning and how are we moving forward?

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Anastasia "Stacy" Collins (she/her/hers) holds an M.S. in LIS and an M.A. in Children’s Literature, and is the Research & Instruction Librarian for Children’s Literature and Social Work at the Simmons University Library. Outside of librarianship, Stacy is a children’s literature scholar and reviewer as well as a trauma-informed facilitator with the Anti-Racism Collaborative of Massachusetts. She is the author of “Language, Power, and Oppression in the LIS Diversity Void,” “The Cultural Doings and Undoings of the Sydney Taylor Book Award,” and the Simmons Anti-Oppression Guide. Her work and scholarship centers the denaturalization and dismantling of systemic oppression in the intertwining fields of youth literature and librarianship. You can follow her online at @DarkLiterata.