Breaking Glass Ceilings

Renate Chancellor is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, USA. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA. Dr. Chancellor is affiliated faculty at the Syracuse Lender Center for Social Justice. She has published widely on critical cultural information studies, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), and social justice in Library and Information Science. Her first book, E.J. Josey: Transformational Leader in the Modern Library Profession was published in 2020. She serves on the editorial boards of Library Quarterly and Education for Information. She also serves on the American Library Association’s Publishing Committee. Dr. Chancellor received the Association for Library and Information Science Education’s (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014 and was recipient of the ALISE Norman Horrocks Leadership Award in 2012.

• AcknowledgementsPreface ForewordIntroduction1. Midwestern Roots and an Evolving Identity as a Black Woman Librarian2. At the Heart of a Civilization 3. Stirring the Waters at the Detroit Public Library 4. Blazing a Trail for Women, Then and Now5. An Enduring LegacyAppendix A: Clara Stanton Jones’s PublicationsAppendix B: Chronology BibliographyIndex

A thought-provoking book serving as a potent biography of a library pioneer and a call to action for library professionals to consider the true cost of systemic biases.