[baisl] Invitation! Join us for a special guest speaker at Castilleja School 1/27/17
- From: Jole Seroff <jseroff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: baisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:08:09 -0800
Greetings, all,
Hopefully you'll have a moment before heading off on a well-deserved winter
break to think about getting together with your BAISL colleagues in the new
year.
The library team at Castilleja School is excited to host a regional BAISL
meeting 1/27/17. Because we're offering an exciting guest speaker, we'd
like to expand the invitation to the full membership. I wouldn't want you
to miss out if you're interested!
*Please click here to RSVP for this meeting!*
<https://goo.gl/forms/SY3S1qotRP90hBWF3>
Our guest speaker is Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D. Safiya's work deals with
issues such as race, gender, diversity and representation in a way that I
believe extends and deepens the work we've been engaged with as a
BAISL community.
Here is an excerpt from her bio:
Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an assistant professor in the Department of
Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies at UCLA. She also holds appointments in the Departments of African
American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. Her research on the design
and use of applications on the Internet is at the intersection of race,
gender, culture, and technology. She is the author of a monograph on racist
and sexist algorithmic bias in search engines like Google (forthcoming, NYU
Press), and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of
Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of two
books: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online (Peter
Lang, Digital Formations, 2016), and Emotions, Technology & Design (Elsevier,
2015).
You can learn more about Safiya's work on her website
<
https://safiyaunoble.com/>. As a sample, I've attached an article she
published in 2012, Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Women.
I saw her speak at the Library Information Technology Association's (LITA)
President's Program at ALA last summer and found her work relevant and
provocative.
She'll be at Castilleja working with our students on Friday January 27th.
We'd like to invite our BAISL colleagues to join us for a presentation and
workshop with Safiya after school. You're welcome to arrive for
refreshments and socializing anytime after 3; we'll start the program at
3:30 and finish by 5. If there are folks interested in happy hour
afterwards I can make a reservation nearby in lovely downtown Palo Alto!
*Please don't forget to RSVP at this link
<
https://goo.gl/forms/SY3S1qotRP90hBWF3>.* I will get back to you after
winter break with more details.
Good luck wrapping up the semester. Hope to see you all soon!
--
Jole Seroff
Director of Library and Information Services
Castilleja School
1310 Bryant St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 470-7765
jseroff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WOMEN LEARNING I WOMEN LEADING
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