Leading Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives with Open Resources

Track

Diversity

Level of Experience

Intermediate

Target Audience

Academic Librarians, General Librarianship, and Research

Session Description 

OA journals and OERs are cost savers. These resources can also be used as a social justice tool. This session discusses how OERs facilitates inclusion in the classroom and explores how OA publications brings more diversity into the scholarly discourse.

Presenter 

CJ Ivory, University of West Georgia
CJ Ivory is Assistant Professor and Learning & Research Support Librarian at the University of West Georgia where she teaches a credit-bearing course on Information Literacy & Research. In this semester-long course she connects social justices issues to information literacy concepts.

Prior to this position, CJ served as Business Librarian at the University of Central Florida and Reference Librarian at Valencia College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Central Florida and Master of Library & Information Science from Florida State University. Her research interests include open pedagogy, critical information literacy, and social justice education.

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