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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 and Waitlist Full

Registration and the waitlist are now at full capacity. If you have already registered, you should receive a link to the schedule (with session links) via Sched. You can edit your registration on Eventbrite.

If you weren’t able to join us this year, we hope to see you at the next POCinLIS Summit!

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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.

"May You Live in Interesting Times"

The theme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

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.”

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.

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

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

Browse the contents of POC in LIS Summit:

2025 Schedule & Presentations
2023 Schedule & Presentations
2021 Schedule & Presentations
2018 Schedule & Presentations