A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies

Jiménez, Andrea; Vannini, Sara; Cox, Andrew

doi:10.1108/jd-10-2021-0205

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“…This could then enable the virtuous circle, feeding informed and diverse students back into the professional pathway and as faculty. Awareness would move beyond collections and access towards more fundamental issues around race and privilege, while specifically British approaches such as Birdi's (2021) three-step framework and Jimenez et al (2022) decolonial lens could inform curriculum development, cultural competence work and professional development. The embedded nature of privilege, which informs everything, from classification and collection management to recruitment and marketing, would be tackled in the curriculum, recognising the impact of the multiculturalism repertoire, founded on decolonisation.…”

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What are the options for library and information studies education reform in addressing racial inequity in the library profession in the UK?

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2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This work explores international research into library and information studies (LIS) education as part of the diversity, equity, inclusion and access (DEIA) agenda and identifies options for LIS education reform in addressing racial inequity in the library profession in the UK. The paper sets out the UK legal, higher education and LIS education contexts, focussing on the role of the professional association, accreditation and the curriculum, and the library and information workforce, and highlights current practices in DEIA in the UK. Using a methodology drawn from bibliometric approaches, a set of academic and professional articles related to DEIA and the LIS curriculum are analysed and nine interpretative repertoires are then identified and discussed. Four core mature repertoires concentrate on the professional association, the university, LIS faculty and the curriculum. These core clusters are surrounded by emerging repertoires which are more recent and more critical. Each repertoire is discussed, referring to key sources and authors to present a picture of trends and complexity in recent (2000–2022) literature on the topic. The aim of this work is to provide a detailed view of existing practice in LIS education relating to DEIA. LIS schools are a vital part of the professional pathway: without a qualification there is no profession, and university students are more-often-than-not drawn from the more privileged and wealthier sectors of society. It is recommended that LIS schools recruit students and faculty who reflect communities and develop the abilities of students to serve the communities they may or may not reflect. These are categorized into clusters, in an attempt to inform LIS education reform in the UK.

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“…Many of these publishers, especially in the mid- and smaller range, would have been omitted if one had drawn only from a subset of the databases. This is especially pertinent to those that are either located in the Global South (Collyer, 2018; Jimenez et al , in press, pp. 4–5; Okune et al.…”

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Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach

Nishikawa-Pacher

2022

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PurposeHow to obtain a list of the 100 largest scientific publishers sorted by journal count? Existing databases are unhelpful as each of them inhere biased omissions and data quality flaws. This paper tries to fill this gap with an alternative approach.Design/methodology/approachThe content coverages of Scopus, Publons, DOAJ and SherpaRomeo were first used to extract a preliminary list of publishers that supposedly possess at least 15 journals. Second, the publishers' websites were scraped to fetch their portfolios and, thus, their “true” journal counts.FindingsThe outcome is a list of the 100 largest publishers comprising 28.060 scholarly journals, with the largest publishing 3.763 journals, and the smallest carrying 76 titles. The usual “oligopoly” of major publishing companies leads the list, but it also contains 17 university presses from the Global South, and, surprisingly, 31 predatory publishers that together publish 4.606 journals.Research limitations/implicationsAdditional data sources could be used to mitigate remaining biases; it is difficult to disambiguate publisher names and their imprints; and the dataset carries a non-uniform distribution, thus risking the omission of data points in the lower range.Practical implicationsThe dataset can serve as a useful basis for comprehensive meta-scientific surveys on the publisher-level.Originality/valueThe catalogue can be deemed more inclusive and diverse than other ones because many of the publishers would have been overlooked if one had drawn from merely one or two sources. The list is freely accessible and invites regular updates. The approach used here (webscraping) has seldomly been used in meta-scientific surveys.

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“…More directly, IT is stereotypically a male profession, and specifically in AI workforces, especially in technical roles, white males are over-represented (Gehlhaus and Mutis, 2021). Furthermore, AI is often today being developed by very powerful, global tech companies which are embedded within the capitalist system with its historical links to patriarchy, colonialism and neo-liberalism (Crawford, 2021;Jimenez et al, 2022). The manifestations of AI produced within these technological systems are likely to perpetuate sexist and racist assumptions.…”

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Defining artificial intelligence for librarians

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Mazumdar

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The aim of the paper is to define Artificial Intelligence (AI) for librarians by examining general definitions of AI, analysing the umbrella of technologies that make up AI, defining types of use case by area of library operation, and then reflecting on the implications for the profession, including from an equality, diversity and inclusion perspective. The paper is a conceptual piece based on an exploratory literature review, targeting librarians interested in AI from a strategic rather than a technical perspective. Five distinct types of use cases of AI are identified for libraries, each with its own underlying drivers and barriers, and skills demands. They are applications in library back-end processes, in library services, through the creation of communities of data scientists, in data and AI literacy and in user management. Each of the different applications has its own drivers and barriers. It is hard to anticipate the impact on professional work but as information environment becomes more complex it is likely that librarians will continue to have a very important role, especially given AI’s dependence on data. However, there could be some negative impacts on equality, diversity and inclusion if AI skills are not spread widely.

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A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies

Cited by 24 publications

References 66 publications

What are the options for library and information studies education reform in addressing racial inequity in the library profession in the UK?

What are the options for library and information studies education reform in addressing racial inequity in the library profession in the UK?

Who are the 100 largest scientific publishers by journal count? A webscraping approach

Defining artificial intelligence for librarians

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