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Sara Lowe\u003Cbr>IUPUI, [mlowe@iupui.edu](mlowe@iupui.edu)\u003Cbr>Follow this and additional works at: [https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit](https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit)\u003Cbr> Part of the Information Literacy Commons\u003Cbr>Let us know how access to this document benefits you. |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nPiper, G., Ameen, M., & Lowe, M. S. (2021) . An Investigation of Anti-Black Racism LibGuides at ARL Member Institutions. Communications in Information Literacy, 15 (2), 188–207 . [https://doi.org/10.15760/](https://doi.org/10.15760/)[ ](https://doi.org/10.15760/)[comminfolit.2021.15.2.3](comminfolit.2021.15.2.3)  \nThis open access Research Article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4 .0) . All documents in PDXScholar should meet accessibility standards. If we can make this document more accessible to you, contact our team.  \n 188  COMMUNICATIONS IN INFORMATION LITERACY | VOL. 15, NO. 2, 2021  \nAn Investigation of Anti-Black Racism LibGuidesat ARL Member Institutions  \nGemmicka Piper, IUPUI  \nMahasin Ameen, IUPUI  \nM. Sara Lowe, IUPUI  \nAbstract  \nThis study sought to analyze anti-Black racism LibGuides created by ARL member institutions to determine strengths and weaknesses of the guides based on LibGuides best practices. Institutional and LibGuide author demographic information were also gathered to determine correlations or trends, if any. Rubric evaluation of LibGuides found that guides were strongest in areas related to guide design, materials included on the guides, and links to resources. Guides were weakest in areas related to the framing of social justice and pedagogy. Results from this study have the potential to inform the structure and revision of social justice LibGuides at a time when librarianship is grappling with issues of neutrality, racism, and becoming more anti-racist.  \nKeywords: social justice, anti-black racism, LibGuides, assessment  \nPiper, G., Ameen, M., & Lowe, M. S. (2021) . An investigation of anti-Black racism LibGuides at ARL member institutions. Communications in Information Literacy, 15(2), 188–207.  \nCopyright for articles published in Communications in Information Literacy is retained by the author(s). Author(s) also extend to Communications in Information Literacy the right to redistribute this article via other scholarly resources and bibliographic databases. This extension allows the authors' copyrighted content to be included in some databases that are distributed and maintained by for-profit companies. All other rights of redistribution are licensed by Communications in Information Literacy under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4 .0) .  \nCOMMUNICATIONS IN INFORMATION LITERACY | VOL. 15, NO. 2, 2021  189   \nAn Investigation of Anti-Black Racism LibGuides  \nat ARL Member Institutions  \nFrom 2012 to 2021 there have been many cases of Black bodies and death paraded in the media. A constant barrage of 24-hour media loops of police brutality have been immortalized then shared across various social media platforms (Lewis, 2020) . The mockery, gaslighting, and then miscarriages of justice in courts oflaw regarding these deaths became a powder keg that ignited amidst the stress of the COVID-19 shutdowns, finally reaching its zenith in the Minneapolis riots on May 26th, 2020. Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors organized at the national level, creating a unified resistance that had not been seen in America since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s (WBUR, 2020) . Access to information and its role in social justice emerged as a key th","cbCaigSSRANjZqnH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigSSRANjZqnH","pdf",273891,21,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Background: BLM, racism, and access to information\n# Methods\n# Findings and Evaluation Results\n## Strengths: design, materials, links\n## Weaknesses: framing of social justice and pedagogy\n# Implications","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the study on anti-Black racism LibGuides?\",\"answer\":\"The study evaluates anti-Black racism LibGuides created by ARL member institutions, using LibGuides best practices to identify strengths and weaknesses. 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