Current Issue: July 2018
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Shivley, Jarrell, and Denton
Ready, set, make!
Exploring library resources in a residential hall makerspace
Increasingly, the maker movement has spread across the nation in various contexts. Emerging from this movement are sites called makerspaces, which bring individuals together to create and learn collaboratively via engagement ...
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Lotts and Maharjan
Outreach, engagement, learning, and fun in 60 seconds
Button making at the Rutgers University Libraries
In the fall of 2016, the Rutgers University Libraries (RUL)-New Brunswick Learning and Engagement team spent $580 to purchase a button maker and ...
International Insights
Te Paea Paringatai
Collective leadership and participation with indigenous matters
Redefining indigenous literacy
Let’s say you work in a research or academic library that models traditional approaches to leadership, management, services and service delivery, and your library is interested in becoming a better workplace that attracted, retained, and developed indigenous staff, as well as transformed its service and service delivery to better include, involve, and implement indigenous language, culture, and ways of knowing. If it excelled at indigenous inclusion, how would people treat indigenous staff and students differently? What kinds of interactions would be visible in any new integrated service you developed? How would you reflect ...
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Kai Alexis Smith
Popular culture as a tool for critical information literacy and social justice education
Hip hop and Get Out on campus
We live in a politically polarizing climate and at a time when there is great economic and social unrest in the United States. Our current moment brings to my mind other periods ...
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Evans, Herold, and Sharrow
Hidden science superstars
Making diversity visible to increase inclusion
Issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are at the forefront of conversations in many academic and research libraries. In this article, we discuss our efforts to increase representation on our campus and in our library.
Perspectives on EDI—Irene M. H. Herold
No matter where I have worked across the United States, and I mean literally across the United States, from Washington State to Illinois to New Hampshire to Hawaii to Ohio, I have repeatedly heard the refrain that it is difficult to recruit for diversity. It has been well documented ...