Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Social Justice

Abstract

This Special Issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL) on Social Justice came out of a column series that aimed to define social justice concepts and provide contextual examples of them for science and technology librarians. As they were developing the column series, the five authors (Jeffra D. Bussmann, Isabel M. Altamirano, Sam Hansen, Nastasha E. Johnson, and Gr Keer) thought it was also important to highlight the social justice work that was actively being done in science and technology libraries, and thought an ISTL Special Issue was the best way to accomplish this goal. This team reached out to the editorial board of the journal ISTL with their idea and let the board know that their ambition was to continue the conversation they were fortunate enough to begin in ISTL about social justice and science librarianship.