Social Justice Across Campus: Inspiring Reading and Research in the Black Lives Matter Movement

• In Event: Unmasking Racism and Violence: Co-Creating a University Statement and #BLM Social Justice and Advocacy Series

Abstract

V. Dozier is an Education Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego’s Copley Library. V earned her Bachelor of Arts in English at Tuskegee University, a Master’s of Arts in Teaching Secondary English Education at Duke University, a Master’s of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, and will one day complete the Instructional Leadership with an emphasis in Instructional Technology doctoral program at the University of Alabama. She previously taught middle grades Language Arts and high school English in Durham, North Carolina and Montgomery, Alabama. V previously served as a Technical Services Librarian at Stillman College, and held tenure-track library faculty positions as a Education & Distance Education Librarian at Mississippi State University and Education Librarian at University of Alabama. As an Education Librarian and liaison for the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences (SOLES) and its four departments- Counseling and Marital and Family Therapy, Learning and Teaching, Leadership Studies, and the Naval ROTC program, she supports the teaching, learning, research, and service goals of SOLES administrators, faculty, staff, students, centers, research institutes, and affiliated entities using an embedded librarianship model, in which V’s office is physically located in SOLES. Her teaching responsibilities include library research methods and information literacy courses, course-integrated instruction sessions, library distance education courses, and workshops for Copley Library, SOLES, and the SOLES Graduate Student Writing Center on topics such as APA Style, NVivo, copyright, and bibliometrics. Additionally, V assists SOLES faculty and students with teaching and research-related queries including developing research assignments, literature reviews, dissertation research, copyright, scholarly communications, education statistics, and publishing or grant opportunities. V maintains a busy research agenda with research interests including the experiences of BIPOC and other historically marginalized populations in academic libraries, graphic novel and comics use for educational purposes, the open movement, and critical information literacy and pedagogy. She has published book reviews on library-related titles and has forthcoming publications in the areas of academic library diversity and OER use in graduate-serving education schools. She recently completed the Association of Research Libraries’ Leadership and Career Development Fellowship (2018-2019), a program designed to prepare mid-career librarians from underrepresented populations to successfully take on leadership roles. V also presents at academic library conferences with recent presentations on experiences of BIPOC in academic libraries, academic library diversity efforts, and supporting historically marginalized graduate students at a primarily white institution. Additionally, she has an active service record with membership in the American Library Association (ALA), Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), and on several library- and university-level committees, regional committees such as the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Program and Professional Development Committee (PPDC,) national committees including the ALA’s Instructional Technologies Committee and ACRL Education & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Librarian Award Committee. Finally, V is also a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. V developed a libguide for the #BLM Social Justice and Advocacy Series and is assisting developing the fall and spring program.

Author

• V Dozier, University of San Diego