GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)

ALA GODORT and ACRL PPIRS invite you to attend the inaugural Kenya S. Flash Virtual Lecture Series in Librarianship: The Participatory Promise of Digital Community Engagement: Toward an Equitable, Trustworthy Scholarly Communication System.

This presentation will focus on an open access digital resource built at Indiana University Bloomington Libraries (IUB) - Land, Wealth,  Liberation: The Making & Unmaking of Black Wealth in the United States. The primary timeline for this resource spans 1820-2020 and offers  alternate construction of significant historical periods, tying them to events that directly affected black communities, such as the 1921 destruction of Greenwood, Tulsa, and the federal urban renewal policies initiated by the 1949 Housing Act.

This project has seen significant uptake from the IUB campus/ general community and attracted help from diverse student workers (librarians actively engaged students in developing their skills in scholarly communication, open access, and digital methods). The success of this project opens new doors for collaborative digital scholarship projects  between the Libraries, the campus, and the community, and illustrates that digital collections focusing on the stories of historically marginalized groups can be an important means of addressing multiple concerns.

Friday, July 14, 2023 at 12:00 PM CST / 1:00 PM EST

REGISTER HERE: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/5BXFJZF7 

About the Series

ACRL Politics, Policy and International Relations Section (PPIRS) and ALA Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) hosts a free online annual speaker series in honor of our beloved colleague the late Kenya Siana Flash. Ms. Flash was the Librarian for Political Science, Global Information and Government Information at Yale University from 2017 until her untimely death in December 2021.

Ms. Flash was an active member of both organizations. She was elected to the PPIRS' Executive Board and served on the Professional Development and Membership Committees, and helped launch the Preparedness & Security Group. Ms. Flash was sponsored by GODORT in ALA's Emerging Leaders Program and served on their Government Information for Children Committee, Program Committee, was the Coordinator for the International Documents Task Force, and was a GODORT Representative to the ALA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Assembly and Liaison to the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SSRT). In her professional activities she was an endless advocate, an expert whose counsel was consistently sought and admired as a mentor who helped forge relationships and collaboration among librarians. 

The Kenya S. Flash Virtual Lecture Series in Librarianship invites individuals of accomplishment, experience, and passion to present on any number of topics near and dear to Kenya. Broad topic areas include Policy, Politics, or Political Science, International Relations, Government Information, Global/Area Studies, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Social Justice, and Accessibility. While Kenya is no longer with us, her memory, spirit and mission to improve librarianship through education lives on in this lecture series.

About Willa Liburd Tavernier, inaugural lecturer and Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian at the Indiana University Libraries - Bloomington

Willa Liburd Tavernier earned her MLIS from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa together with a graduate certificate in college teaching. She holds a Master of Laws from American University's Washington College of Law, a Legal Education Certificate from Norman Manley Law School, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She is a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries Residency Interest Group (RIG), serving on its assessment team and subgroup on diversity residencies and a board member of the Library Publishing Coalition and Secretary of NASIG (formerly the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.). As Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian at Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington, Willa assists faculty and graduate students in managing their research profiles and tracking and demonstrating the impact of their scholarly work. Her current research looks at equitable scholarly communication, specifically governance and sustainability, from the perspectives of both systems and labor.