This Banned Books Week, join SC&I professors and esteemed international experts in LIS and reading scholarship as they discuss the movement for diverse books and how information professionals can cultivate critical and transformative practices with diverse literature.

DID YOU KNOW that diverse books are disproportionately targeted by would-be censors?

DID YOU KNOW that diverse books help make sense of structural barriers that inhibit our freedom to read?

Marc Aronson - Moderator Associate Professor of Professional Practice - MI Program School of Communication & Information at Rutgers

Emil Lawrence - Host Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science School of Communication & Information at Rutgers

Beth Brendler-Panelist Assistant Professor of Information Science University of Missouri

Emily Knox - Panelist Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor in School of Information Science University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign 

Melanie Ramdarshan-Bold - Panelist Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies University College London

To register and get the Zoom Link  - https://bit.ly/3mw7ha6