The inaugural winners of the ALISE Community conn@CT mini-grants will present their projects (see below) and share their experiences collaborating with social justice organizations to create and innovate solutions to advance their missions. Grant winners will present the social justice organization’s library and information needs, their community engagement experiences, the impact on research, teaching, and/or practice, and how the collaboration serves as a model for progressive community action in the library and information field. Audience discussion will follow to examine how these projects/experiences represent or contribute to developing a progressive community action model in library and information science, and what would constitute such a model. • Christine Angel, Assistant Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, St. John’s University Project Title: Creating Access to Archival Documents for Immigration Policy Reform: A Project of Original Legislative History from the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law for the (Re)construction of Immigration Policy within the United States Community Institution: The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS-NY)
• Karen Gavigan, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina Project Title: Creating an Anti-Gang Graphic Novel – Social Justice from Behind the Fence Community Institution: South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (SCDJJ)
• Joyce M. Latham, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, AND Milo Miller/Christopher Wilde, Co-founders, Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP), Milwaukee, WI Project Title: The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) Community Institution: The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
