Lumley, Risa M. (2020, October). The academic library and social justice: Exploring librarian attitudes at one HIS. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 19(4), 472–491. (doi: 10.1177/1538192718823179) (Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/1538192718823179)
Abstract: Librarians have the potential to influence the university’s representation of knowledge, making it important to understand the attitudes they bring to work each day. Results of this Q study indicate librarians may believe their profession’s ethos of neutrality renders debate over social justice within the library moot. Only a small number of librarians at this Hispanic-serving institution envision themselves positioned to promote social justice by empowering students to use the resources currently available within the library.
Risa M Lumley <rlumley@csusb.edu> is a librarian at the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino, CA.
