Research Activities

Libraries have the potential to serve as community catalysts and create, develop, and advance racial justice in their communities. This includes furthering racially just library collections, spaces, programs and services in support of their communities. It also means that libraries as workplaces need to become more racially just.

The following page has three components of the project work plan:

1) Project Design includes the following:

Assessment
Strategic planning
Actualization of information-based solutions
Evaluation
Dissemination

2) Research and Action Plan includes the following:

Phase I (Year 1) [Assessment]
Phase II (Year 2) [Strategic planning]
Phase III (Phase 3) [Actualization of information-based solutions]

3) Evaluation includes the following:

Evaluation questions (judgement criteria)
Intervention logic
Indicators

4) Key Personnel & Strategic Collaborations
PIs: UA SLIS [Bharat Mehra (Professor & EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice] and CSU CIMST [Kimberly Black (Associate Professor)] are strategically collaborating with state and public libraries from all the 16 southern states (and Washington, D. C.) to facilitate all grant activities.

For more details, check the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) website.