POC in LIS Summit

POCinLIS Online Summit 2025

The People of Color in Library & Information Science (POCinLIS) Summit will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025 online via Zoom. Registration is free, but space is limited. Registration is to open in May 2025.

The mission of 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. This summit 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.

"May You Live in Interesting Times"

The theme May You Live in Interesting Times invites submissions that recognize and address 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 those called upon to actively resist intersecting oppressions. This year, the online summit aims to be a supportive and vital counterspace for reflection, exploration, commiseration, and experimentation among trusted colleagues. We ask you to be brave and share how you are grappling with the present, past, and future of these “interesting times”.

Your track may include and are not limited to:

• Yes, You Have Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenges And… ?
• Information Working In An Age Of Change
• Confronting Professional And Workplace Challenges On A Personal Level
• Censorship and Facing Levels of Pushback
• We Are All A Work In Progress

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. Information students and library workers of all kinds are invited to submit proposals.

Call for Proposals Submit a Proposal

This conference is funded by the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University and Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC).

Need Help? Have Questions? Email pocinlis@lmu.edu