The LORDS (LibGuide Open Review Discussion Sessions) Work
Workshop | Monday, May 17, 2021 | 1:30pm – 2:30pm EST
The LibGuides Open Review Discussion Sessions (LORDS) Project works towards cultivating a community across California State University Libraries that provides space for critique, conversation, and criticality. In using critical race theory to acknowledge structures of publishing, libraries, and reference, this LibGuide review system works towards holding criticality to fight against the farce of neutrality within knowledge organizations. Started at a predominately white institution, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, we hope to bring anti-racist practices to our LibGuides by understanding and acknowledging the white supremacist structures of publishing, libraries, and reference in our work. As a CSU-wide system, we are establishing a people-to-people network in working towards self-reflective anti-racist practices, web usability best practices, critical information literacy, and more. The facilitators of this project hope to share the methods, developments, and lessons learned through a game style presentation (most likely along the lines of family feud, but subject to change).
Presenter: Jaime Ding & special guests
Jaime Ding (she/her) works as the Digital Publishing Research Fellow at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. Through designing a more equitable digital publishing workflow, she strives to collaborate to rethink ideas about the ‘public,’ accessibility, and knowledge organization. She also loves trash in/and public spaces.