Assistant Professor of School Librarianship
EMIERT Chair
Dr. Andrea Jamison is an Assistant Professor of Librarianship at Illinois State University. Professor Jamison has more than 17 years of experience working in the field of education and libraries. She speaks internationally on library inclusivity, intellectual freedom, and the interplay of race, power, and privilege in children’s books. Her research involves examining equity issues in library services and the role that libraries play in either perpetuating or mitigating systems of inequity.
Professor Jamison has conducted content analyses on hundreds of collection development policies to determine how policies address diversity and how they align with ALA’s Bill of Rights. She has written articles on these topics for Knowledge Quest, American Libraries Magazine, The Library Assessment Conference, and ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog. Her book, Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices, is part of Beta Phi Mu Scholars’ Series. The book is available for preorder and will be released in October of 2023.
Professor Jamison is the current acting chair for ALA’s Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Roundtable, which promotes multiculturalism in librarianship, and a library ambassador for Lee and Low Books.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT
EMIERT Presents the Diverse BookFinder (Poster 10)
Sunday, June 25, 2023
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CT