Information Professionals for Social Justice

The Social Justice Group was started in Fall 2001 by GSLIS Professor Ann Bishop as a cluster of faculty, students and staff from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and other disciplines across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We share a common vision to create awareness, build understanding, and directly address social justice issues in the information professions. Topics we have focused on include: equity of access to information, participatory and democratic practices in the design and evaluation of information systems, community networking and public access computing in low-income neighborhoods, the development of theory and research methods in LIS that promote the interests of marginalized society members, and the provision of library services promoting racial, economic, and gender equity in society.

The Social Justice Group engages in:

Discussion of social justice issues, readings identified by group members, and reports of events and activities of interest to group members;

Provision of a forum in which group members present their research;

Interaction with guest speakers from the community or other institutions across the country;

Community outreach and service-learning;

and Building a community of people interested in social justice in the information professions.

• State of Illinois
• Central Illinois

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University of Illinois

Chicago Campus - Springfield Campus - Urbana-Champaign Campus