Ways to demonstrate institutional commitment to diversity (from University of Washington ISchool)
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Integrating diversity-related knowledge, skills, and modalities into learning experiences inside and outside the classroom.
- Identifying and addressing information issues and needs of underserved populations
- Identifying and addressing global information issues and needs of different nations
- Enabling access to information and promoting information literacy
- Organizing information for accessibility and empowerment
- Designing information systems and products for all members of the community
- Managing diverse work environments that maximize multiple perspectives
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Conducting research in areas that have impact for a diverse population
- Indigenous systems of knowledge
- Information needs of marginalized populations
- Design of adaptive, assistive technology
- Value-sensitive design
- Information and communication technology for development
- Information policy
Search Terms
- LIS education and Diversity
- Cultural Competence
- Education
- Service Learning
- Information & Knowledge Management
- Information Policy
- Information behavior & Retrieval
- Inclusion
- Inclusive pedagogy
- Social Justice
- Cultural Humility
- White Fragility
- Counter-Storytelling
- international librarianship
- international archives
Useful Information Science
See the links below to search Pratt Libraries' Information Science databases. Each database contains thousands of the journal articles you need for your research.
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ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital LibraryAn excellent resource for computing and information technology topics.
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Emerald InsightA wide range of serials, series and books in library science, management and related fields. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
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Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)Indexes the contents of books, journals, conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews in the literature of Library and Information Science published since 1980. Contains over 185,000 citations from English- and non-English-language sources. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
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Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 (H.W. Wilson)Indexes of English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, library school theses, and over 300 books a year. It also delivers cover-to-cover full-text articles from over a hundred select publications.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. A list of periodicals indexed is available.
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Science Direct Social & Behavioral Sciences College EditionProvides full-text scientific journal articles and book chapters in social and behavioural sciences.
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ScopusProvides abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources in science, technology, medical and social sciences fields, and arts and humanities.
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Taylor & Francis OnlineThis subscription provides access to the Library & Information Science collection, which includes over 45 journals and the publications of associated societies.