Jamia Williams earned her Bachelor of Science in History from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport and earned her Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University. Jamia Williams is the Consumer Health Program Specialist with the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Training Office. Williams is the co-creator and co-host of the podcast LibVoices, which amplifies the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who work in archives and libraries. Jamia founded the Diversity Fellow’s blog, a platform to document her journey as a Black librarian.
Most academic librarians engage with students in various ways, and one of those meaningful and life-changing ways is offering an internship. One of my professional goals is to create a... read more →
The Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium (CLAPS) was held virtually from November 2–4, 2022. CLAPS “brings together the ongoing but parallel discourse surrounding critical pedagogy among academic librarians, critical pedagogy... read more →
Many academic librarians have to incorporate information literacy into their instruction sessions. We have the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) framework for information literacy for higher education that... read more →
As academic librarians, most of us are responsible for library instruction. As a result, we have to learn and develop a pedagogical or andragogical theory or framework. It is vital... read more →
According to Merriam-Webster, andragogy is the art or science of teaching adults. So how can this theory help us as academic librarians—primarily since conversation around academic library instruction mainly revolves... read more →