Multiple ways of knowing: Global perspectives on academic libraries re-imagining systems of knowledge

Abstract

Three library and information science educators, scholars, and prior practitioners were invited to address the question: What is the academic library’s role in resisting and eradicating systemic inequalities in science/ systems of knowledge to advance multiple ways of knowing? This column engages global perspectives on the need for academic libraries to stop reproducing institutional and systemic racism and other forms of discrimination, while advancing multiple ways of conducting research and learning, reimagining scholarship and science in higher education, and engaging epistemological thinking that examines knowledge systems and power.