The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large not to mention library customers and society as a whole.
This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations that promote the development of empathy and build cultural competence, examines the research in the areas of diversity and social justice in librarianship, explains how social responsibility is a foundational value of librarianship, and identifies potential employment and networking opportunities related to diversity and social justice in librarianship.
