2023 Schedule & Presentations

Session 1A: Leading Students with LEAN

Ashaki Harooon, Xavier University of Louisiana

McIntosh Center, U-Hall 3999

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1B: It's Lonely at the Top: Views from the First Year in Administration

Ashley Watts, Altadena Library District

U-Hall Classroom 3230

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1B: Women of Color’s Assets and Barriers in Leadership Positions in Academic Libraries (Work in Progress)

Valeria Molteni

U-Hall Classroom 3230

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1C: Cafecito, Chisme, and Community Building: Creating a Network of Support as New and New-to-the-Role Librarians

Ariana Varela, University of Southern California
Renee Rau, University of Southern California
Javier Garibay, University of Southern California

U-Hall Classroom 3304

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1C: Virtual Chat & Chew: Radical Self-Care for BIPOC Information Professionals

Jamia Williams, University of Utah
Shannon D. Jones, Medical University of South Carolina

U-Hall Classroom 3304

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1D: Redefining HOME with up//root

Megdi Abebe, up//root, We Here
Kristina Santiago, up//root, We Here

U-Hall Classroom 3320

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 1D: What does this have to do with our work?: Creating a library-specific anti-racism toolkit

Jackson Huang, The University Of Michigan

U-Hall Classroom 3320

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Session 2B: Racelighting: Understanding Experiences with Questioning Our Own Realities

Terezita Overduin, Chaffey College

U-Hall Classroom 3230

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 2B: Reversing White Yearning: A Brown and Queer Filipinx Librarian’s Exorcism of Colonialism and Veneration of Indigenous Ancestry (A Work in Progress)

Joseph Kevin Sebastian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

U-Hall Classroom 3230

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 2C: "My Skinfolks but Not My Kinfolks": Searching for Kinship in Libraryland

Ayanna Gaines, Woodbury University

U-Hall Classroom 3304

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Session 2D: Doubling from 8-16% : Slowly and Steadily Taking Over the Archives Profession

Lizeth Zepeda, Loyola Marymount University
Stef Baldivia, California State University, Chico
Jennifer Ho, California State University, San Marcos
Penny Neder-Muro, California Institute of Technology

U-Hall Classroom 3320

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Lightning Talk: Resisting the Institutionalization of DEIA: Border Thinking and Academic Librarianship

Blanca Garcia-Barron, Mt. San Jacinto Community College

Ahmanson Auditorium

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Lightning Talk: The Application of Indigenous Knowledge and Theory to Decolonize a Non-Native Cultural Museum Collections

Maile Chung

Ahmanson Auditorium

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Lightning Talk: The Cruel Optimism in Becoming a Librarian

Nicole Murph, Loyola Marymount University

Ahmanson Auditorium

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Session 3A: "Connecting with the Library (under)commons”: Building Community through Class Solidarity as Anticolonial Praxis

Luz Badillo
Selina Portera
Lawrence Maminta

McIntosh Center, U-Hall 3999

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Session 3B: Findings from the Research and Program Development Phase of the BIPOC Become Librarians Project

Hyokyung (Carrie) Hwang, San Jose State University
Michele A. L. Villagran, San Jose State University

U-Hall Classroom 3230

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM

Session 3C: Young, Brown, Ambitious: How Three Young Women Kept Their New Mexico Libraries Alive in 2020 and Beyond

Kate Alderete, New Mexico State Library
Berdina Nieto, New Mexico State Library
Raquel Martinez, Taos Public Library

U-Hall Classroom 3304

2:25 PM - 3:25 PM