Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.21900/j.alise.2025.1990

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: ALISE 2025

Pages

10 pp.

Conference Name

Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: ALISE 2025, 6-8 October 2025, Kansas City, Missouri

Abstract

This paper explores the development of the graduate course Anti-Racism in Library and Information Science that was piloted at Western University in 2022 and 2023. The one-semester (13-week) course was designed with Black-led community organizations and students contributed to anti-racist information and memory work through experiential learning partnerships. The course used critical Library and Information Science (LIS) literature alongside Black Canadian scholarly perspectives that were grounded in anti-oppression and anti-racism frameworks. The course goals were for students to develop an understanding of how race and other structural inequities inform lived experiences and tools to support collaborative community-led projects. The LIS-tailored approach to anti-racist reflection and relationship-building can be applied more broadly to similarly question and resist problematic power structures and practices to create more consciously powerful and valuable relationships for students, librarianship, and communities.

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© 2025 Amber Matthews

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

Matthews, A. (2025). Addressing anti-Black racism in library and information science curriculum: A Canadian exemplar [Paper presentation]. Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: ALISE 2025, Kansas City, Missouri. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2025.1990

ORCID

0000-0002-1937-3187 (Matthews)

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