Gender & LIS Edit-a-thon
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When and Where
Date and TimeJune 4th, 3:00pm - 7:00pm
City, StateNew York City, New York

This meetup is attached to the course, Gender and Intersectionality in LIS Practice, taught by Professor Jessica Hochman at the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science.

Course Information

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Instructor: Jessica Hochman, PhD

From the syllabus:

Within the SILS community, and the profession writ large, there is an ongoing need for an examination of gender within the field. This course will address concerns around gender and its intersections with race, class and sexual orientation.

The course is project-based and engages students in reflective practice. Each week students will engage in a workshop that builds on the week’s readings, centered around a theme related to the LIS field. These workshops will infuse considerations of gender and intersectionality into traditional areas of study within the information professions. Students in the course will therefore practice several typical library practices in innovative ways through the lens of gender.

Readings and Resources

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  • The Encyclopedia Must Fail… Notes on Queering Wikipedia: Noopur Raval (available open access)
  • McCook, K. P. (2014). Librarians as Wikipedians. Progressive Librarian, (42), 61-81. (available open access)
  • Carstensen, T. 'Gender Trouble in Web 2.0. Gender Perspectives on Social Network Sites, Wikis and Weblogs.' International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology 1(1).(available open access)
  • Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). (Re)triggering backlash: Responses to news of Wikipedia’s gender gap, Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(4), 284-303 (toll access)


Event Participation

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Due to space limitations, in-person participation is restricted to enrolled course members. Online participation is open to all!

In-Person Participants

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Online Participants

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Join us!

Articles to Edit

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Articles to Create

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  • Courtney Young, President of ALA
  • Radical Reference

View other past presidents on ALA's website.

  • Barnard Zine Collection

Outcomes

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