Information from Non-Dominant Perspectives

The Medical Library Association recently announced its commitment to diversity and inclusion. While this is a positive start, critical librarianship takes the crucial concepts of diversity and inclusion one step further by advocating for social justice action and the dismantling of oppressive institutional structures, including white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism. Critical librarianship takes many forms, but, at its root, is focused on interrogating and disrupting inequitable systems, including changing racist cataloging rules, creating studentdriven information literacy instruction, supporting inclusive and ethical publishing models, and rejecting the notion of libraries as neutral spaces. This article presents examples of the application of critical practice in libraries as well as ideas for applying critical librarianship to the health sciences.

In this essay, we embrace a vision of the future of academic libraries where librarians confront and creatively address the lack of racial and ethnic diversity within our profession and actively pursue a social justice agenda within our libraries and in the communities we serve. This future requires that we acknowledge that many of our current practices reinforce existing structures of inequity and privilege, and that we leverage our services and resources to support, document, and encourage diversity and social justice efforts within librarianship and society (from abstract).

This chapter focuses on the forces of neoliberal discourses as a form of oppression in students' lives and the need for the development of critical information literacy practice centered on the work of Paolo Freire.
From: Information Literacy and Social Justice by Lua Gregory and Shana Higgins

By Kay Mathiesen. To discuss the problem of cultural imperialism as it relates to human rights andto provide a framework for applying human rights to Library and Information Services (LIS)so as to respect diverse worldviews. Chapter in Perspectives on Libraries as Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice by Eds. Ursula Gorham, Natalie Greene Taylor, Paul T. Jaeger.

In knowledge organization systems, mutual exclusivity, linearity, and hierarchy prohibit an easy solution for intersectional topics. Topics can be structurally or semantically misrepresented or erased. This article builds upon Olson's research to provide theoretical context from identity studies, further examples from knowledge organization, and describes some of the proposed methods of managing intersectionality.