Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science

<p><em>Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science</em> presents a range of case studies that have successfully implemented social justice as a designed strategy to generate community-wide changes and social impact. </p><p>Each chapter in the collection presents innovative practices that are strategized as intentional deliberate systematic outcome-based and impact-driven. They demonstrate effective examples of social justice design and implementation in LIS to generate meaningful outcomes across local regional national and international settings. Including reflections on challenges and opportunities in academic public school and special libraries museums archives and other information-related settings the contributions present forward-looking strategies that transcend historical and outdated notions of neutral stance and passive bystanders. Showcasing the intersections of LIS concepts and interdisciplinary theories with traditional and non-traditional methods of research and practice the volume demonstrates how to further the social justice principles of fairness justice equity/equality and empowerment of all people including those on the margins of society.</p><p>Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science will be of great interest to LIS educators scholars students information professionals library practitioners and all those interested in integrating social justice and inclusion advocacy into their information-related efforts to develop impact-driven externally focused and community-relevant outcomes. </p>