- Portland State University,
- Academic libraries,
- Institutional repositories – United States – Administration,
- Social justice,
- Racial justice,
- Climate justice,
- Environmental justice
- African American Studies,
- Asian American Studies,
- Chicana/o Studies,
- Civic and Community Engagement,
- Community-Based Learning,
- Community-Based Research,
- Educational Leadership,
- Ethnic Studies,
- Higher Education,
- Indigenous Studies,
- Inequality and Stratification,
- Latina/o Studies,
- Library and Information Science,
- Native American Studies,
- Social Justice and
- Women's Studies
Academic libraries have the opportunity and the responsibility to promote and advance content that creates transformative and iterative learning opportunities. To that end, and in an effort to build communities and facilitate co-creation, Portland State University showcases three main Featured Collections in our open access repository, PDXScholar: Climate Justice, COVID-19, and Racial and Gender Equity, with a fourth pilot collection—Student Work: An Open Showcase of Outstanding Student-Created Research & Creative Work—under development. The collections include a broad range of audiovisual materials, such as podcasts and webinar series, as well as sustainability and equity work, student-created content, and numerous future-focused multidisciplinary counter stories. By showcasing interdisciplinary projects and minority faculty scholarship, we provide a platform that helps elucidate complex problems like climate change, public health challenges, systemic racism, and student retention from a range of perspectives. Our Featured Collections program provides an example of how institutional repositories might be reorganized to spark ideas, ignite discoveries, and accelerate change.
Some of the content was presented at the first inaugural Innovation Summit: Libraries & Innovative Learning Environments, held at Cal Poly Humboldt September 14, 2023. The presentation of the same title appears below as an additional file.
The Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (HJSR) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal housed in the Department of Sociology at Cal Poly Humboldt. All HJSR issues are archived and searchable through JSTOR.
Original Publication:
https://doi.org/10.55671/0160-4341.1245
Full Issue:
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/hjsr/
Appeared in the Special Issue, Academic Libraries Creating Global Community: Operating Outside of Traditional Roles and Spaces
Libraries are frequently viewed through a traditional perspective of passively providing information resources, but today’s most innovative college and university libraries have become so much more. When the editorial board issued a call for projects for the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, the librarians at Cal Poly Humboldt jumped at the opportunity to demonstrate this new reality through the lens of community efforts. Our librarian editorial team assembled and edited some of the best of what libraries have been doing so that these under-celebrated community efforts could reach the wider audience they deserve. We hope you enjoy what has been published here, and to our fellow librarians, that you are inspired to tackle challenges beyond your own campus walls.