{"title":"Librarians as Chief Diversity Officers in American Universities: A Clinical Librarian’s Experience","authors":"Wanda Thomas","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41252","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns a clinical librarian's work as a chief diversity officer to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in healthcare and medical education at an American university. The need for healthcare professionals to have access to resources that can assist them with providing equitable care to all patients grows in tandem with the increasing significance of DEI in healthcare. These resources can only be provided by medical librarians. Medical librarians are uniquely positioned to provide these resources. From a unique perspective, a librarian serving as chief diversity officer for a multi-campus medical school in the United States can help ensure that these resources are culturally responsive and appropriate for diverse patient populations. This article discusses the benefits of appointing a clinical librarian as a chief diversity officer (CDO), promoting and increasing awareness of DEI issues through library resources, and the potential for creating more inclusive healthcare information.","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139208592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyper-diversity in Sampling Strategy for Reader Response Studies in an Urban Context.","authors":"Melina Ghasseminejad, Anneke Sools, Luc Herman, María-Ángeles Martínez","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.40749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.40749","url":null,"abstract":"Early strategies of researching readers turned scholars to hermeneutic shortcuts like Iser’s ‘implied’ or Fish’s ‘informed’ reader. However, these shortcuts cannot be seen as studying ‘actual’ readers. One approach to studying actual readers has been turning to empirical methods. However, even though the institutions that do these types of research are located in culturally complex cities, the process of participant selection in empirical studies often does not take the city’s make-up into account. Therefore, this article aims to present a participant sampling strategy for empirical reader response research with Antwerp as the location for a study of urban readers in a European context. Opting for a qualitative approach and thus a purposeful sampling strategy and taking the hyper-diverse nature of major cities into account, we suggest using social milieu rather than traditional descriptive markers by recruiting from different neighbourhoods. This as neighbourhoods have their own culture and play an important role in a person’s identity. Turning to local libraries for participant recruitment means a step towards studying actual readers and will lead to a deeper insight into the effects of texts on readers. Moreover, apart from obtaining a richer variety of idiosyncratic responses, this can also result in a deeper understanding of (sub)cultural responses to narratives.","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"52 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139205146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Five Labours of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism Work by Racialized Academic Librarians","authors":"Allan Cho, Elaina Norlin, Silvia Vong","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41002","url":null,"abstract":"This study unpacks the experiences of academic librarians that identify as racialized to better understand the weight of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work. The themes that emerged from the interviews with the librarians were emotional labour, interpretive labour, identity labour, racialized labour, and aspirational labour. These forms of labour are often oversimplified, unacknowledged, or unquantifiable. For one line on a curriculum vitae, committee, advisory, or working group related equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism work may not be compensated or financially supported to reflect the intensity and expertise needed for the work. It is important to unpack the complexity of the work to demonstrate how to better support racialized librarians that engage with this work that contributes to changes in the academic library and profession.","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"1998 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Inclusion: Student Outcomes from an Academic Library’s Gallery Exhibit in Florida","authors":"Katy Miller, Kristine Shrauger","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.40709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.40709","url":null,"abstract":"In October 2022, University of Central Florida librarians created an interactive exhibit for students to express themselves on topics related to inclusion and diversity. At the main entrance to the library, there is a long gallery wall that typically showcases artwork or informational exhibits. To create a more inclusive exhibit of students’ voices, librarians created a series of prompts, and students posted their reactions to the prompts on this wall. Librarians developing the exhibit purposely decided to reimagine the exhibit from one that tells a story about a traditional diversity topic to one that creates a positive sense of community among students. The popularity of the wall was overwhelming, with over 3,000 individual responses from students. The exhibit acted as a conversation prompt and a way for students to share their perspectives. This paper outlines the steps to creating a similar exhibit and an analysis of students’ responses.","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"57 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139268391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work by David A. Hurley, Sarah R. Kostelecky and Lori Townsend (2023)","authors":"Kael Moffat","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"48 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139273738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Boosting the Knowledge Economy: Key Contributions from Information Services in Educational, Cultural and Corporate Environments by Francisco-Javier Calzada-Prado (2022)","authors":"L. Ho","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"48 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139276213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Fostering Wellness in the Workplace by Bobbi Newman (2022)","authors":"Stephanie Robertson","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i3/4.41127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"138 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139271187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vol. 7. No. 1/2 (2023)","authors":"L. Brochu","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i1/2.41068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i1/2.41068","url":null,"abstract":"Cover and credits for volume 7, issue 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2023.","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125304144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Academic librarian faculty status: CLIPP #47 by Edgar Bailey and Melissa Becher (2022)","authors":"Andrew B. Wertheimer, Ph.D.","doi":"10.33137/ijidi.v7i1/2.39953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v7i1/2.39953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":355223,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129153623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}