POC in LIS Summit
POCinLIS Online Summit 2025
The People of Color in Library & Information Science (POCinLIS) Summit took place on Friday, July 25, 2025 online via Zoom.
"May You Live in Interesting Times"
The theme "May You Live in Interesting Times" recognizes and addresses the troubling, fraught, and often discordant times that we find ourselves in. As people of color moving through uncertain times, both in our field and the larger information landscape, we are not only being challenged as workers and individuals, but also called upon to actively resist intersecting oppressions.
The 2025 online summit aimed to be a supportive and vital counterspace for reflection, exploration, commiseration, and experimentation among trusted colleagues.
About POCinLIS Summit
The mission of the POCinLIS Summit is to create a productive and brave space for people of color, especially women and marginalized identities, working in the information sector. Information workers will have the opportunity to explore their work in LIS as POC and their intersecting identities as POC+ and information workers.
This summit invites participants to challenge and interrogate their roles and actions as information workers. It aims to collectively establish rules of engagement and discourse, acknowledging that dominant narratives may be disrupted. This space is created to support the research of POC librarians and create a network of POC information workers for future collaboration and self-care.
The POCinLIS Summit is a space for collaborative conversations that explore our passions and interests. We welcome submissions that are unique, challenging, and unorthodox in other LIS spaces.
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This conference is funded by the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC).
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