Papers, panels, workshops and posters (types described below) are invited covering the following, and related, topics with regard to Libraries, Archives, Museums, and other Information Institutions:
- How to empower people in all walks of life
- Designing for diversity, inclusivity, equitable and flexible use
- Community needs assessment for design and development
- Understanding and developing services for underserved / marginalized groups
- Community building, activism and citizenry
- Inequities, questions of privilege, power, and social control
- Human rights
- Critical approaches
- Creating inclusive spaces
- Systems, structures and architecture for design and development in the context of social justice and community engagement
- Transforming from provider-led agencies to community-led agencies of social changeSocial justice, archives and preservation
- Cultivating promotion and practices that enable social justice initiatives and avoidance of practices that hinder these
- International perspectives / research on social justice
- International perspectives / research on community engagement
- Libraries and other information institutions for hosting civic discourse
- Developing countries and preservation of indigenous knowledge
- Information organization / metadata / search algorithms for diversity, inclusivity, and flexibility
- Diverse cultural contexts, religious, political and value systems
- Social justice and community engagement
- Pedagogy for social justice
- Virtual communities affording access to different stakeholders
- Collection development for diversity and inclusion
- Intellectual freedom, information ethics
- Information literacy
- Reflective assessment of best practices from the field, as related to conference theme