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Collaborations to support the SJ4A curriculum in archival studies and social justice intersections: Training of community-embedded paraprofessional archivists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color

Mehra, Bharat; Riter, Robert B.; Harris, Ron; Canales, Johana

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Title
Collaborations to support the SJ4A curriculum in archival studies and social justice intersections: Training of community-embedded paraprofessional archivists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color
Author(s)
  • Mehra, Bharat
  • Riter, Robert B.
  • Harris, Ron
  • Canales, Johana
Issue Date
2024-10-16
Keyword(s)
  • archives
  • education programs
  • social justice
  • Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC)
  • collaborations
  • community-embedded
  • paraprofessionals
Abstract
The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program recently awarded a $463,238 grant titled “Training of Community-Embedded Social Justice Archivists” (SJ4A) to the School of Library and Information Studies atthe University of Alabama. The grant’s goal is to recruit/train 17 community-embedded paraprofessional archivists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color to complete their master’s degree part-time from January 2023 – December 2024 in the SLIS’ synchronous distance education program. SJ4A meets an urgent need to diversify the professions and for archivists to apply social justice competencies in work experience and community-embedded practice with graduate instruction and curriculum support. This paper identifies ongoing collaborations to support curriculum development in the SJ4A phases, including recruitment of students,needs assessment of archives-related professionals about social justice services, implementation of educational activities, mentoring, evaluation of program outcomes, dissemination of results, and post-graduation career tracking.
Publisher
Association for Library and Information Science Education
Series/Report Name or Number
Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
  • Conference Paper
  • Presentation
Language
eng
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130760
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1658
Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2024 Bharat Mehra, Robert B. Riter, Ron Harris, Johana Canales
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference: ALISE 2024 PRIMARY
The Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information