Keynote

Keynote ADDRESS

Distrupting the Narrative: Cultivating an Inclusive Library Environment for All the Lives We Touch

Speaker

Shannon Jones, MLS, MEd, AHIP

Director of Libraries, Medical University of South Carolina Libraries

Time & Place

Friday, October 4, 9:00-10:00 am in the Capitol I Ballroom

Topic

The Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is excited to host Shannon Jones (MLIS, MEd, FMLA, AHIP) as our keynote speaker for the 2019 conference. Ms. Jones is the Director of the Medical University of South Carolina Library, and she is a national leader on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries. She is an editor on the forthcoming Medical Libraries Association publication Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call To Action and Strategies For Success. She has presented on a variety of topics, including delivering the continuing education course “Implicit Bias Training for Information Professionals,” at MLA 19, and recently was part of a panel at ALA Annual, “The Sense of Self: How Identity Informs Academic Librarianship.” We are excited to have her as both a presenter and a moderator of the panel “Beyond Cultural Competence: Diversity in Library and Health Sciences.”