IJIDI Cover and Credits April 2021


VOLUME 6 I NUMBER 3 | FALL 2022 

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF 

INFORMATION, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION 
 

  

 

 
 

 

 

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INTRODUCTORY ARTICLE 
 
An ethos of grace: Towards an 

epistemic growth in LIS as a global 
discourse - Vanessa Irvin 
 
 
RESEARCH ARTICLES 
 
Expanding the narrative of 

intercultural competence: A study of 
library faculty and staff - Natasha E. 
Johnson, William Ledbetter 
 

The civilized war within American 
librarianship: Teaching strategies for 

battling colorblindness in the LIS 
classroom - Mónica Colón-Aguirre,  
Nicole A. Cooke, Lisa K. Hussey 
 
A refocusing of the study of 
gatekeepers among linguistic 
minorities, the case of Spanish 
speakers in the United States:  
Implications for the study of 
information behavior - Mónica Colón-
Aguirre 
 

 

 
 
RESEARCH ARTICLES (continued) 
 
The Diversio Diversity and Inclusion 
Survey: Framework and psychometric 
properties - Somkene Igboanugo, Jieru 
Yang, Philip Bigelow 

 
 

SPECIAL SECTION - REPORTS 
FROM THE FIELD 
 
Inequities in public library branch 
access and children's book circulation 
in a midwestern American city - Clare 

Crosh, John Hutton, Greg Szumlas, 
Yingying Xu, Andrew Beck, Carley Riley 

 
 
 
 

BOOK REVIEWS 
 
Edited by: Halie Kerns; Stephanie 
Robertson 
 

Reviews by: Allee Monheim; Halie Kerns; 
Katrina Cohen-Palacios; Erin Renee Wahl; 

Kay Hones 

 

Dr. Vanessa Irvin, Editor-in-Chief 



JOURNAL CREDITS 

              Editor-in-Chief 

Dr. Vanessa Irvin 

 
Associate Editors  
Dr. Nadia Caidi  
Dr. Mirah Dow  
Dr. Jia Tina Du 
Dr. Mario Ramirez 
Dr. Wiebke Reile 

Senior Managing Editors 
Mona Elayyan 

Laina Kelly 
 

Book Review Editors 
Halie Kerns  

Stephanie Robertson 
 

Managing Editors  
Michelle Albrecht  
Kelly Dickinson 
Vashalice Kaaba 

Dunyau Maqsoudi-Moreno 
Jennifer McDevitt  

Bethany McGowan 
Lawrence Ogbeni 
Kayla Reddecliff 

Cara B. Stone  
Emily Villanueva 

 
 

 
Cover Design by Kevin J. Mallary 
Graphic Design by Vanessa Irvin 
IJIDI logo created by Craig Taylor 

 
Image: pexels.com, Sachin C Nair 

 

 

 

 

 

 
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF  

INFORMATION, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION