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Final Reflection LIS 510 Emily Carr, Trained, Must be intentional,…

- - - - "The patterns through which the cultural practices and assumptions associated with the socially constructed category of ‘white’ are uncritically treated as the normal and appropriate way to behave and produce research in a scholarly setting; this then may cause students of colour to be marginalised and excluded” (Gusa, 2010 as cited by Pashia, 2017, p. 88)
        
        87% of Information Professionals are White (Chiu, et al., 2021)
        
        Being transparent in our use of terms like "diversity" and "inclusion"
        
        Understanding how WIP manifests itself in scholarly work/research standards and working to actively shift this narrow way of thinking
        
        There is more than one way to be "professional"!
    - - Leads to the “misconception that racial inequity does not affect libraries and requires no real intervention in libraries because people from all races, creeds, and walks of life are treated equally in the space” (Chiu et al., 2021, p. 51)
- - - - Armour Institute Entrance Exam (1893)
      - Ultimately developed the foundation for library school curricula: "[The course of study] includes lectures and instruction in library handwriting, accession, and other department routine, cataloging, classification, loan systems, binding, shelf arrangement, shelf listing, reference work and bibliography, literature and the history of books and printing" (Sharp, 1894, p. 164 as cited by Grotzinger, 1992, p. 5)
    - - “In several respects, Sharp was the Library School, and her conviction, her enthusiasm, her drive, and her unswerving dedication were the determining factors for the School during its formative years” (Grotzinger, 1992, p.6)
  - - - A field now dominated by White women
  - - - 5 Laws of Library Science
        
        Books are for use
        
        Every reader, his/her/their book
        
        Every book, its reader
        
        Save the time of the reader
        
        The library is a growing organism