Critical Look at Information Science and Librarianship in a New Age

Wade Bishop is a Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. He is the Director of Graduate Studies as well as the Research Data Management Certificate Coordinator.Renate L. Chancellor is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). She is recipient of the 2014 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2012 ALISE Leadership Award. She is an affiliated faculty member with the Lender Center for Social Justice.Joe Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College (CUNY), USA. He is a Mellon Fellow and a Google/ALA fellow in the Libraries Ready to Code Program, a founder of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), and on the advisory board of the ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellows program.

• Section 1. Pirates Chapter 1. Visible Threats and Hidden Practices: Embodied Information and the Policing of Biker Identity; Joe Sánchez Chapter 2. Man, Becky, Bear! Surviving White Mediocrity and Striving Towards Anti-Racism (STAR) in LIS; Nicole A. Cooke and Rachel D. WilliamChapter 3. An Epistle to the iPostles: A Sermon on the Mount(anious) Journey from Ph.D. Student to LIS Professor; Joseph Winberry Chapter 4. A Pirate’s Critique from Social Justice Imperatives: A Manifesto of Decolonizing actions to Resist Entrenched Dysfunctions in LIS Scholarship; Bharat Mehra Section 2. Ghosts Chapter 5. Everything I Need To Know About Information Science I Learned from the L Word: What the Field Needs to Recognize about Everyday Information; Vanessa Kitzie Chapter 6. Who feels like they belong at the library?; Heather Hill Chapter 7. The future has a Past’: On Information, Memory, and the Black Feminist Hereafter; LaVerne Gray Chapter 8. The More Than Three-Body Problem: Embodiment as a Persistent Challenge to Information Science; Travis L. Wagner Chapter 9. Unclaimed Baggage: Facets of Fragility; Wade Bishop Section 3. Unexplored Spaces Chapter 10. DEIA…The Final Frontier? Going Where No One Has Gone Before?; Renate L. Chancellor and Deirdre Michael Sullivan Chapter 11. Crossing the (Scientific) Borders: Redefining Disciplinary Boundaries and Bridging the Divides in ISL; Ly Dinh Chapter 12. Toward a New AI Literacy; Peter Organisciak and Emily Gillette Chapter 13. A Virgo’s Guide to Surviving the Aquarian Shift: Reimagining Information Systems with Precision and Purpose; Siobahn Day Grady