Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM)

Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving

Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities

A Pathfinder

Mohamed Taher

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Tentative Sections of the Book (with proposed chapter titles):

Section I: LAMs in the Workspace: Weaving Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Digital Identity.

(Summary: Infostructure -- human, technical, administrative, organizational, etc. and infrastructure -- IT/IS -- preparation towards developing a responsible social and civic-minded digizen (or netizen) via community and LAM's literacy and outreach) [Themes include: Technologies, Techniques, tools, know-how, skills, judgement, confidence and compassion.]

Section II. LAMs in the Community: Weaving Inclusive Participation/Engagement in Practice.

(Summary: Strategy and approach towards building local digital bridges in achieving equality and equity of access for everyone's information needs). [Themes include: case studies, best practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based studies.]

Section III: LAMs in the Community: Weaving Inclusive Participation/Engagement in Theory.

(Summary: Towards fostering core competencies of information professionals for social empathy, human-centered, and civic engagement) [Themes include: teaching, learning, research, models, strategies, and outcome measures.]

Section IV: LAMs in the Community: Weaving Digital Twins as Best of Both Worlds in Smart Cities.

(Summary: Towards facilitating a convergence that sustains empowerment of an engaged and inclusive netizen] (Themes include: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Smart Cities).


Dissertation/ Thesis (samples, ask if you need ):



Terminology

Civic engagement

Social Justice

Library Guide

Fact Checking Resources

Digital literacy

Books and other publications (2000-2021)


Civic Engagement / Civic Inclusion

Functional definition


“Civic engagement is simply fulfilling your role as a citizen in your community and society through active participation in civic life.” Wright State Univ., Service-Learning and Civic Engagement | Wright State University

Social Justice

Functional definition :


“Non-Discrimination” becomes “Inclusion” (Anon.)

“Social justice as a process towards a better, more equitable reality.” -- By Tim O’Grady

https://activehistory.ca/2012/11/archives-and-social-justice/

Culture, Diversity and Social Justice in a Global Context, NCU Library Guide



Fact Checking Resources

•FactCheck (Annenberg Public Policy Center, for checking on political claims.)

•Snopes (urban legends, news stories - cite their sources at the end of each debunking.)

•PolitiFact (The Pulitzer Prize-winning -- claims of politicians and checks their accuracy.

•SourceWatch (profiles the activities of front groups, PR spinners, industry-friendly experts, industry-funded organizations, and think tanks trying to manipulate public opinion on behalf of corporations or government)

•TinEye (Check images to see if they have been altered or misidentified as fake news)

•Hoax-Slayer (Snopes but tighter in scope, Hoax-Slayer on email hoaxes, identity theft scams and spam.)

Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers This short, open source book by author Mike Caulfield provides alternative, web-native approaches to news literacy and fact-checking



Books and other publications (2000-2021)


Web content


Theme-wise :

Library and Social Justice

  • Pateman, J., & Vincent, J. (2016). Public libraries and social justice. London: Routledge. [worldcat.org]

  • Epstein, S., Smallwood, C., Gubnitskaia, V., & Brown, W. K. (2019). Social justice and activism in libraries: Essays on diversity and change.[worldcat.org]

  • Jaeger, P. T., Shilton, K., & Koepfler, J. (2016). The rise of social justice as a guiding principle in library and information science research.

Library and civic engagement:

  • Kranich, N. (2005). Civic partnerships: The role of libraries in promoting civic engagement. Resource sharing & information networks, 18(1-2), 89-103.

  • Coward, C., Maclay, C., & Garrido, M. (2018). Public libraries as platforms for civic engagement. [washington.edu]

  • Smith, A. (2013). Civic engagement in the digital age. Pew Research Center, 25, 307-332. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/04/25/civic-engagement-in-the-digital-age/

Museums and Social Justice

  • Gokcigdem, E. M. (Ed.). (2016). Fostering empathy through museums. Rowman & Littlefield. [google books.]

  • Sandell, R., & Nightingale, E. (2012). Museums, equality and social justice (p. 344).

Archives and Social Justice

  • Punzalan, R. L., & Caswell, M. (2016). Critical directions for archival approaches to social justice. The Library Quarterly, 86(1), 25-42.

  • Gilliland, A. J., & Halilovich, H. (2017). Migrating memories: transdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to teaching about diasporic memory, identity and human rights in archival studies. Archival Science, 17(1), 79-96.

Archives and Civic engagement

  • Hoyer, J. (2020). Out of the Archives and into the Streets: Teaching with Primary Sources to Cultivate Civic Engagement. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 7(1), 9.

  • Acker, A., & Kriesberg, A. (2017). Tweets may be archived: civic engagement, digital preservation and Obama White House social media data. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 1-9.

Museums and Civic engagement

  • Golding, V., & Modest, W. (Eds.). (2013). Museums and communities: Curators, collections and collaboration. A&C Black.

  • Weiser, M. E. (2017). Museum rhetoric: Building civic identity in national spaces (Vol. 5). Penn State Press.