Greetings! The Anthropology and Sociology Section's Conference Program Planning Committee is looking for one or two additional folks to join our program proposal for the ALA Annual Conference to be held in Chicago in June 2026. If you are a librarian who works with archives, museums, or other anthropology or sociology-adjacent institutions and have been engaged in thinking about the ways in which the disciplines we work with must adapt or resist to different political landscapes, please email me (ebridger@nmu.edu) with a couple sentences on how you might contribute to this panel by Thursday, September 18.
Below is the committee's initial brief description:
Information literacy practitioners often use the metaphor of research as an ongoing conversation among members of a discipline or community of practice. But what happens when those conversations draw public and/or political scrutiny? We invite librarians to learn from the experiences of librarians, researchers, and heritage professionals whose work engages with public conversation and political ideals in a time when such work is both fraught and increasingly necessary. We will also discuss how changing cultural and political ideas shape libraries and museums and their role in our communities.
Many thanks,
Emera Bridger Wilson, PhD
Chair, ANSS Conference Program Planning Committee
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Emera Bridger Wilson
Collection Management Librarian, Assistant Professor
Northern Michigan University
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