Name: Session 1.5 SIG Program - Youth Services: Transforming Youth Services in Library and Information Science: A Participatory Panel of Best Practices for Social Justice Action and Praxis
Start: 2015-01-28T08:30:00-0600
End: 2015-01-28T10:00:00-0600

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Session 1.5 SIG Program - Youth Services: Transforming Youth Services in Library and Information Science: A Participatory Panel of Best Practices for Social Justice Action and Praxis

This panel will highlight six short papers that offer examples for the transformation of youth services in library and information science through social justice in the LIS classroom and beyond.

Moderators

Robin F. Kurz

Writer and Librarian

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Speakers

Dr. Sarah Dahlen

St. Catherine University

Danielle Forest

The University of Southern Mississippi

Sandra Hughes-Hassell

Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also President of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). In her current research, she focuses on social justice issues... Read More →

Sue Kimmel

Professor, Old Dominion University, Library and Information Studies Program

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Dr. Kafi Kumasi

Associate Professor, Wayne State University

Judi Moreillon

Assistant Professor, Texas Woman’s University

For ALISE 2015, I am most interested in discussing why the term "social justice" seems to be more allusive in our literature than in the librarianship literature of other countries, such as the United Kingdom. I believe this term should be more widely applied to library services and... Read More →