Professional Pathways Speaker Series: Jeanie Austin
Professional Pathways invites a series of working professionals across library and information science to share their journey into their careers and experiences in the field! This is a career development series where students can understand the current professional landscape, and is not intended to be a career fair or employment seeking opportunity. The speakers cover a wide range of roles within library and information science, as well as information management, and as such this event is open to ALL iSchool students.
Jeanie Austin is a Jail and Reentry Services librarian with San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), and is co-PI on SFPL’s “Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People” project, which is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation. They earned their PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their research interests and activities include the provision of library services to people in juvenile detentions, jails, and prisons. They were a Library Journal 2022 Mover & Shaker for advocating for increased library and information services for people most negatively impacted by incarceration. Jeanie's book, Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access, is available through ALA Editions.
Questions? Contact Mallika Ramachandran.
This event is sponsored by iSchool Student Affairs