LibGuide Open Review Discussion Sessions (LORDS) Interest Group

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Last updated: Mar 18, 2022 by Mark Stover
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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.

 

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. 

 

-jaime ding, 2/2022

 

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

Each LORDS session uses a rubric as a suggested framework for the discussion. Other resources can be found on the LibGuide from Cal Poly SLO about the project.

 

For a more detailed discussion, resources, and an introduction to ideas about the project, please check 2020-2022, watch this recording of a session, or watch this Association of Southeastern Research Libraries webinar from August 2020.


Past Participants

Russ White (Cal Poly SLO); Laura Sorvetti (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 (Northridge) ; 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 ; 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); Ford-Baxter, Tiffanie L ; Cotton Coslett (Fullerton) Carolyn Caffrey Gardner (Dominguez Hills); Luz Badillo (Northridge) ; Melissa Cober (Northridge)