Inclusive Libraries
Citizen Research Empowerment
91猎奇 researchers collaborate closely with the surrounding community and local organizations, addressing equity gaps for information access, leading the way in learning technology integrations, creating programs that serve as national models for citizen conservancy of cultural heritage, and more.
Hosting groundbreaking community-university collaborations like our King Library partnership and engaging in diverse, locally-centered approaches, we ensure responsive and socially just research that amplifies community voices. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in these areas.
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Selected Publications
Chow, A., Bridges, M. Commander, P., (2014). . Reference & user services quarterly 53(3).
Hirsh, S. (2024). Editor, . New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Liu, Z., Hu, R., Bi, X., (2023). . Journal of Documentation 79(3).
Lowe, C. (2023). Journal of Documentation 79(2).
Lowe, C. (2024). . Proceedings, International Transformative Learning Conference XV.
Oladejo, B., and Hofman, D., (2023). . Records Management Journal.
Award Highlights
Alvarez, Dodge, Lowe, Roy, Villagran, 鈥淏IPOC Become Librarians鈥�. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Award, 2022
Blackmer Reyes, Santa Clara County Heritage Grant. Collaboration with Dr. Margo McBane and Suzanne Guerra, 2020
Blackmer Reyes, 鈥淪ide Dream exhibit and digitizing Alcario Castellano 237 videos of the San Jose chapter鈥檚 GI Forum events鈥� 鈥� Social Science Research Council, NEH, 2022
Hofman, Attar, Nojan, Villagran, Ghosh 鈥淐ross-Campus Interdisciplinary Responsible Computing Learning Experiences鈥� 鈥� Mozilla Foundation, 2023
McNiece, Hackman, He, Szydlowski, "All of Us Research Program" 鈥� NIH, 2025
Villagran, 鈥淏ridging Knowledge: Supporting Indigenous Scholars Into the Field of Librarianship.鈥� Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program award, 2021
Featured Faculty
Librarian, University Library
Social Justice, Local History, Mexican Americans, Labor, Civil Rights, Higher Education
ORCID: 0000-0002-9411-1785
Director, School of Information
Usability, Virtual Reference Services, Instructional Technology, Information Seeking
Behavior, Informatics
Associate Dean of Academics, College of Information, Data and Society
Information Seeking, Blockchain and Libraries, LIS Curriculum, Future of Libraries
ORCID: 0000-0003-3575-1130
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Archival Science, Records Management, Privacy, Transparency, Records, Law, Responsible
Computing
ORCID: 0000-0002-1772-6268
Senior Assistant Librarian
San Jos茅 History, East Side San Jos茅 History, Lowriders/Lowriding, Local History,
Social Justice
ORCID: 0000-0001-5852-0437
Professor, of Library and Information Science
Information Science, Information Seeking and Use, Reading Behavior, Digital Libraries,
Educational Disparities
Associate Librarian, University Archivist
Information Encountering, Serendipity, Transformative Theory, Education, Human Information
Behavior
ORCID: 0000-0002-1946-082X
Associate Dean of Innovation and Resource Management, University Library
Instructional Design and Technology, Library Systems and IT, Digital Libraries and
Literacy, and Open Access/OER Advocacy
ORCID: 0000-0002-5407-8132
Senior Assistant Librarian
Representation of Marginalized Voices and Populations in the Democratic and Accessible
Space of the Library
ORCID: 0000-0002-8615-5200
Associate Professor, School of Information
Cultural Intelligence, Diversity, Inclusion, Community and Equity, Social Justice,
Serving Multicultural Populations, Emotional Intelligence
ORCID: 0000-0002-0867-8794
Potential collaborators and members of the media may contact us at officeofresearch@sjsu.edu.
