Lorna Dawes
ALA Divisions:
Visionary, creative, empathetic.
I have just completed some background reading for a community archive project and read a lot about university encroachment and urban development. I read the Color of Law: A forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated American by Richard Rothstein, and In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower by Davarian L. Baldwin. Now I am taking a short break from that and reading Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chaya, a fascinating account of our complicated relationship with algorithms.
Progressive, inclusive, dynamic.
One of the things I value the most is how efficiently ACRL provides opportunities for learning, networking and collaboration. It is structured in a way that allows us to take ownership of the direction of the profession and provides the necessary support that we need to be able to meet, collaborate and develop the policies and frameworks that inform our practice.
I will speak more about our Teaching Partnerships department that has been renamed to articulate a little more clearly what we do on the campus. In our roles as teaching librarians, in addition to working with individual students, we now work more purposefully with the faculty, integrating information fluency into their courses, providing open access materials, and creating more engaging information experiences for the students through experiential learning projects.
Librarians have always been agents of change, catalysts for research and advocates for learning.
Pronouns:she/her/hers
Credentials:MLIS
Title:Social Science Teaching Librarian
Workplace:University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Location:Lincoln, NE