The California State University LORDS Interest Group’s purpose is to facilitate and advocate for the LibGuide Open Review Discussion Sessions. Begun in the fall of 2020, the LORDS work is an open peer review system that aims to bring practitioners together across the California State University System.
Introduction to the Project
LibGuides are a prevalent tool in libraries, and yet often their use as a tool is taken at face value. Used as pointers towards knowledge, LibGuides should be a crucial part of creating anti-racist library institutions. In understanding such tools and how to implement such criticality, the LibGuide Open Review Discussion Sessions provides a space across California State University Systems for practitioners to come together to discuss reference, publishing, critical digital pedagogy, critical race theory, and our work in libraries, working towards holding criticality to fight against the farce of neutrality within knowledge organizations.
There are about three LORDS sessions each academic year, usually around the ends or beginnings of semesters. Each session will be facilitated by one of the members of the interest group.
This work also does not necessarily profit off the labor that a person of color has begun, but it is a continuation of work without the person who originated the practice because of the lack of care and prioritization for equity and inclusion ideals in practice. The people who are furthering this work do so in hopes of not necessarily appropriating labor, but of investment in changing systemically and collectively how we think about reference and criticality.
After presentations to the Council of Library Deans, an interest group - further individual prioritization and additional work for the people involved - was the recommended action. This is the organized group that attempts to intentionally commit to the ideas of LORDS.
To get started at a CSU or learn more about the process, please feel free to browse through the LORDS Toolkit: https://tinyurl.com/LORDSToolKit
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LORDS Pilots
LORDS Pilots will happen three to four times a year. As each pilot happens, we aim to fold in more institutions through outreach plans.
Thursday, December 3 2020 at 3pm: the first CSU wide LibGuide Open Review Discussion Session brought together fifteen people from four different institutions (CP San Luis Obispo, CP Pomona, San Francisco, Dominguez Hills). View the rubric and notes from the conversation.
Thursday, March 11 at 2:30pm: LORDS 2.0 will bring together more people from a new set of institutions (CP San Luis Obispo, Northridge, San Marcos, San Francisco, Dominguez Hills). View the rubric and notes from the conversation.
Thursday, August 5 at 1:00pm: Summer Session 2021, bringing together people from Chico, Cal State LA, Maritime, San Francisco, and Fullerton. View the rubric and notes from the conversation.
Current Facilitators
Jaime Ding (Unlicensed), Cal Poly SLO
Melissa Seelye (Unlicensed), San Francisco State
Dana Ospina, Dominguez Hills
Alyssa Loera (Unlicensed), Cal Poly Pomona
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Outreach
LORDS has been discussed and presented at the following organizations and conferences:
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"An invitation to discuss the LibGuides Open Review Discussion Sessions (LORDS)." 2021 CSU Digital Repositories Annual Meeting, July 13, 2021.
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"Transforming Our Libraries for Everyone" Panel. June 23, 2021. ALA Annual Conference 2021.
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"Cultivating Change In California: Decoding and Deconstructing Racial Barriers in Libraries" June 2, 2021. Diversity in Academic Libraries Interest Group (DIAL), CARL.
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Critical Pedagogy Symposium (link to materials presented). METRO, ACRL/NY. May 17, 2021.
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Updating LibGuides with an Anti-Racist Framework: A Reflection (link to guest blog post). March 28, 2021. Teaching Special Interest Group of ARLIS/NA.
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"We Had to Start Somewhere: Applying the AntiRacist LibGuide Framework Created by Jaime Ding and the Cal Poly Team" (link to program) March 8, 2021. Library Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Annual Conference.
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Past Participants
Russ White (Cal Poly SLO); Laura Sorvetti lsorvett@calpoly.edu (Cal Poly SLO); Catherine J. Trujillo (Cal Poly SLO); Sarah Lester (Cal Poly SLO); Yvonne Meulemans (San Marcos); Torie Quiñonez (San Marcos) ; Judith Opdahl (San Marcos) ; Lalitha Nataraj (San Marcos) ; Christina Mayberry (Northridge) ; Marcia Henry (Northridge); Laura Wimberley (Northridge) ; lynn.lampert@csun.edu lynn.lampert@csun.edu; heiser@sfsu.edu heiser@sfsu.edu; Joanna Kimmitt (Dominguez Hills) ; Paul Hottinger (Dominguez Hills); Maggie Clarke (Dominguez Hills) ; MIchaela Keating Fullerton; Sheree Fu (LA); Jennifer Masunaga (LA) ; Katherine Luce (Maritime) ; Lizzy Borges (SFSU) ; Jennifer A. Bidwell jabidwell@cpp.edu; Meredith Eliassen (SFSU) ; Sally Romero (Pomona) ; Jordan Michael Nielsen (SFSU) ; Pam Kruger (Chico) ; Mercedes Rutherford-Patten (Cal Poly SLO) ; Sarah Parramore (Fullerton) ; Kendall Faulkner (LA) ; Margot Hanson (Maritime); Jayati Chaudhuri (LA); Terrones, Lettycia Lettycia.Terrones@calstatela.edu; Camacho, Azalea acamac16@calstatela.edu; Dobry, Adele M adobry@calstatela.edu; Ford-Baxter, Tiffanie L tfordba@calstatela.edu; ccoslett@fullerton.edu ccoslett@fullerton.edu; Carolyn Caffrey Gardner (Dominguez Hills); Luz Badillo (Northridge) ; Melissa Cober (Northridge)