After finishing an inaugural course with encouraging student participation and feedback, I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be teaching another section of my special topics course (LIS 805), Critical Hope & Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship, with the Dominican University School of Information Studies. The 8-week fully asynchronous course offers 3 graduate credit hours for currently enrolled DU SOIS students and is scheduled for the summer session, starting June 30, 2025.
During the two-month intensive course, students will explore the challenges of 21st-century librarianship and the role of critical hope in cultivating leadership, centering well-being, and expanding perceptions of library advocacy. Students are invited to consider and reimagine humane library futures based on consistent praxis, self-preservation, and collective care.
Ways to offer this class to current LIS practitioners are being explored, so please let know if you’d be interested in taking this course if it were available as a continuing education/professional development option (let me know in the comments or send me your vote)!