Good morning colleagues, FYI - ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section 2022 Research Poster Session: Call for Proposals. Please share with your networks. Sincerely, Monica Porter *************************************************************************************** *Monica Porter, MLIS* *Public Services & Outreach Librarian,* *104 Hatcher Graduate Library* *University of Michigan* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190* *monicadp@umich.edu* <monicadp@umich.edu> *734-764-4827 - Hatcher Graduate Library* *734-615-9065 - Donald Hall Library* *pronouns: she, her, hers* *"I have learned that SUCCESS is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life * *as by the obstacles which they have overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T Washington* *************************************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gilley, Jennifer <jrg15@psu.edu> Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:39 AM Subject: CFP: WGSS Poster Session at ALA Annual *ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section* *2022 Research Poster Session: Call for Proposals* The Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) invites proposals for the 2022 WGSS Research Poster Session, which will be held on *Saturday, June 25th*, as part of the ALA Annual Conference, from June 23-28, 2022. The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching partnerships, critical information literacy initiatives, critical cataloging, archival practices, collection development, and scholarly communications related to women and gender studies. Topics dealing with feminism and librarianship are also welcome. This year we are particularly encouraging posters related to the theme of the WGSS program: *Classification and Justice: Unfinished Work in Resource Description*. See the bottom of this email for the full program description. The deadline for submitting an application for the poster session is *March 30th**, 2022*. Following a double-blind peer-review process, applicants will be notified in April if their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference. Start your application process now at https://2022.alaannual.org/general-information/submit-poster-session You must login to the site using your ALA username and password, or create a username and password for the site before you submit your application. Jennifer Gilley Chair, Research Committee Women and Gender Studies Section ACRL ************************ *WGSS Program Classification and Justice: Unfinished Work in Resource Description * A panel discussion with Emily Drabinski and Staci Ross exploring the work still needed to rid Library of Congress Subject Headings and other schemas of sexism, racism, and other prejudicial language. Understanding cataloging through the lens of power changes how we think about this ostensibly neutral work. This panel presentation will explore the longstanding harm of how we categorize people and identities in classification systems. We’ll discuss actions all librarians can take to further the work of critical cataloging regardless of their day to day work with resource description.