Inclusive Libraries

Citizen Research Empowerment

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糖心Vlog 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.

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

Agee, 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

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

Affiliates

Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

Center for Comparative Philosophy

Record Clearance Project

Featured Faculty

chow
Director, School of Information
Usability, Virtual Reference Services, Instructional Technology, Information Seeking Behavior, Informatics

Professor, School of Information, College of Information, Data and Society
Information Seeking, Artificial Intelligence/Blockchain and Libraries, LIS Curriculum, Future of Libraries
ORCID: 0000-0003-3575-1130

hofman
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Archival Science, Records Management, Privacy, Transparency, Records, Law, Responsible Computing
ORCID: 0000-0002-1772-6268

estella inda
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

lowe
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

roy
Associate Librarian/Community Engagement Librarian
Representation of Marginalized Voices and Populations in the Democratic and Accessible Space of the Library
ORCID: 0000-0002-8615-5200

villagran
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.