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Bharat Mehra is an Indian American library educator, renowned for his theoretical research, applied action research, and community engaged scholarship and leadership role in advancing social justice in library and information sciences. He is the author of the Social Justice Laws of Librarianship which extend Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science for the realities of social justice today.[1]
Mehra's scholarship over the last 20 years has consistently and unfailingly raised the visibility of the marginalization of multiple intersectional identities that revolve around gender, sexual orientation, place of origin, place of residence, and more.[2]
Mehra was one of three people along with Donna and George Hoemann who made the proposal for the Commission for LGBT People at the University of Tennessee, resulting in the creation of the University's first Commission for LGBTQ+ communities.[3]
Bharat Mehra is currently the EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice and Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. His areas of expertise are: critical and cross cultural studies, human information behaviors of underserved populations, intercultural communications, rural libraries, and social justice in library and information studies.
Bharat Mehra earned his PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after also earning degrees in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Landscape Architecture.
PUBLICATIONS
Nichols, J., and Mehra, B. (2024). Data Curation and Information Systems Design from Australasia: Implications for Cataloguing of Vernacular Knowledge in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 54). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0065-2830202454.
Williams-Cockfield, K. C., and Mehra, B. (editors). (2023). How Public Libraries Build Sustainable Communities in the 21st Century. (Advances in Librarianship, Volume 53). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0065-2830202353.
Black, K., and Mehra, B. (eds.). (2023). Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community [Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 51]. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0065-283020230000052002/full/html.
Lopez, M. E., Mehra, B., and Caspe, M. (2023). An Exploratory Social Justice Framework to Develop Public Library Services With Underserved Families. Public Library Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2023.2187180
Mehra, B. (2023). (Dis)information, Dysfunctions, and Democracy During the Global Pandemic: Is the Vision of Social Justice a Mirage (for Libraries) in the Neoliberal Age? The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 93 (1), 110-125. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/722549.
Mehra, B., and Jaber, B. S. (2023). “Don’t Say Gay” in Alabama: A Taxonomic Framework of LGBTQ+ Information Support Services in Public Libraries, An Exploratory Website Content Analysis of Critical Resistance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24768
Mehra, B. (2021). Enough crocodile tears! Libraries moving beyond performative antiracist politics. The Library Quarterly, 91(2), 137-149.
Tang, R., Mehra, B., Du, J. T., & Zhao, Y. (2021). Framing a discussion on paradigm shift (s) in the field of information. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(2), 253-258.
Mehra, B., Sikes, E. S., & Singh, V. (2020). Scenarios of technology use to promote community engagement: Overcoming marginalization and bridging digital divides in the Southern and Central Appalachian rural libraries. Information Processing & Management, 57(3), 102129.
Mehra, B., & Gray, L. (2020). An “owning up” of white-IST trends in LIS to further real transformations. The Library Quarterly, 90(2), 189-239.
Mehra, B., & Davis, R. (2015). A strategic diversity manifesto for public libraries in the 21st century. New Library World, 116(1/2), 15-36.
Mehra, B., & Braquet, D. (2011). Progressive LGBTQ reference: Coming out in the 21st century. Reference services review, 39(3), 401-422.
Mehra, B., & Srinivasan, R. (2007). The library-community convergence framework for community action: libraries as catalysts of social change.
Mehra, B., Merkel, C., & Bishop, A. P. (2004). The internet for empowerment of minority and marginalized users. New media & society, 6(6), 781-802.
References edit
- ^ Bharat Mehra. (2022). Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century. Advances in Library and Information Science.
- ^ Bharat Mehra. (2019). The Non-White Man’s Burden in LIS Education: Critical Constructive Nudges. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. Vol. 60, No. 3 DOI: 10.3138/jelis.2019-0012.
- ^ "Bharat Mehra oral history, December 19, 2018". Digital Collections. Retrieved 2024-04-25.