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Presentations & Publications

Presentations

Kitzie, V., Vera, A.N., Lookingbill, V., & Wagner, T.L. (2023). "What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?": The role of public libraries in addressing health information disparities for LGBTQIA+ communities. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Association for Information Science and Technology Conference 2023, London, UK, October 27 – 31.

Greyson, D., Tsai, T. I., Kitzie, V., Martzoukou, K., & Mabi, M. (2021). What's Next for Information World Mapping?: International and Multidisciplinary Uses of the Method. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 590-593.

Lookingbill, V., Vera, A.N., Wagner, T.L., & Kitzie, V.L. (2021). “We can be our best alliance”: Resilient health information practices of LGBTQIA+ individuals as a buffering response to minority stress. Paper presented at the 2021 iConference, March 17-31.
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Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., Vera, A.N., & Pettigrew, J. (2020). Using the World Café methodology to support community-centric research and practice in Library and Information Science. Paper presented at ALISE Virtual Annual Meeting, October 20-23. [ALISE/ProQuest Methodology Competition Paper Award Winner]
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Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., & Vera, A.N. (2021). “When someone sees me, I am nothing of the norm”: Examining the discursive role power plays in shaping LGBTQ+ health information practices. Short paper presented at the ASIS&T Annual Conference, Virtual Conference, October 23-28.

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., & Vera, A.N. (2020). Understanding the health information practices of LGBTQ+ communities to improve medical librarian services. Paper presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, May 15-19.  [3rd place Research Paper Award].

Wagner, T.L. & Kitzie, V.K. (2020). Becoming targets and stepping stones: Mapping queerness and other visibilities in LGBTQ+ health information practices. Paper to be presented at UNC Asheville's 2020 Queer Studies Conference, April 3-5.  (Conference canceled due to COVID-19).

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., & Vera, N. (2020). “In the beginning, it was little whispers…now, we’re almost a roar”: Conceptualizing a model for community and self in LGBTQ+ health information practices. [Lee Dirks Best Paper Award Nominee]. Paper presented at 2020 iConference, Borås, Sweden, March 23-25.

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., Vera, A.N., & Lookingbill, V. (2019). Resituating public library values to leverage the health information practices of South Carolina LGBTQ+ communities. Paper presented at the Library Research Seminar (LRS) 2019 Conference, Columbia, SC, October 16-18.

Kitzie, V.L., Wagner, T.L., Vera, A.N., & Lookingbill, V. (2019). “We try to find something for whatever obstacle might be in our way": Understanding the health information practices of South Carolina LGBTQ+ communities. Paper presented at the South Carolina Medical Librarian Association 69th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, October 10-12.

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., Vera, A.N., & Lookingbill, V. (2019). Interrogating how information (re)produces systemic barriers within LGBTQ+ communities to inform global LIS education. Paper presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2019 Conference, Knoxville, TN, September 24-26.

Kitzie, V.L., Wagner, T.L., Vera, A.N., & Lookingbill, V. (2019). "Like two beach umbrellas put together": Investigating the health information practices of South Carolina LGBTQ+ communities. Poster presented at the 12th Annual James E. Clyburn Health Disparities Lecture, Columbia, SC, April 23.

 

Publications

Kitzie, V., Vera, A. N., Lookingbill, V., & Wagner, T. L. (2024). Bridging the Gap: Fostering Inclusion through Community Forums in Public Libraries Toolkit. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina.

Pdf Link: 230049 IMLS Toolkit.pdf - Google Drive

Kitzie, V., Vera, A. N., Lookingbill, V., & Wagner, T. L. (2023). “What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities. Journal of Documentation, 80(2), 533-551. Scholar Commons

Wagner, T. L., & Kitzie, V. L. (2023). Centering queer knowledge paradigms in designing and implementing health information and communication technologies. Information Technology for Development, 1-20.

Kitzie, V. L., Tsai, T. I., Martzoukou, K., Mabi, M. N., & Greyson, D. (2022). What is next for information world mapping? International and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding information behaviors/practices in context. Library & Information Science Research, 101196.

Lookingbill, V., Vera, A.N., Wagner, T.L., & Kitzie, V. (2021). “We can be our best alliance”: Resilient health information practices of LGBTQIA+ individuals as buffering response to minority stress. In K. Toeppe, H. Yan, & S.K.W. Chu (Eds.), Diversity, divergence, dialogue: 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, virtual, March 17-31, 2021, Proceedings Part II (pp. 3-13). Switzerland, AG: Springer, Cham. Scholar Commons

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L, Lookingbill, V., & Vera, A.N. (2021). Advancing information practices theoretical discourses centered on marginality, community, and embodiment: Learning from the experiences of LGBTQIA+ communities [Special issue, “Information Behaviour & Information Practices Theory”]. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIS&T), Eds. R. Willson, D. Allen, H. Julien, G. Burnett. Scholar Commons

Wagner, T.L., Kitzie, V., & Lookingbill, V. (2021). Transgender and non-binary individuals and ICT-driven information practices in response to trans-exclusionary healthcare systems: A qualitative study [Special focus issue, “Informatics for Sex- and Gender-Related Health: Understanding the problems, developing new methods, and designing new solutions”]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Eds. M.R. Boland, N. Elhadad, & W. Pratt.

Wagner, T.L. & Kitzie, V. (2021). “Access necessitates being seen”: Queer visibility and intersectional embodiment within the health information practices of queer community leaders. Journal of Information Science.

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T., & Vera, A. N. (2021). Discursive power and resistance in the information world maps of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual community leaders. Journal of Documentation 77(3), 638-662.

Kitzie, V., Pettigrew, J., Wagner, T.L., & Vera, A.N. (2020). Using the World Café methodology to support community-centric research and practice in Library and Information Science. Library and Information Science Research 42(4).

Vera, A.N., Wagner, T.L., & Kitzie, V. (2020). “When it’s time to come together, we come together”: Reconceptualizing theories of self-efficacy for health information practices within LGBTQIA+ communities. In B.S. Jean, G. Jindal, Y. Liao, and P.T. Jaeger (Eds.) Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 47), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 263-282. 

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., & Vera, A.N. (2020). “When someone sees me, I am nothing of the norm”: Examining the discursive role power plays in shaping LGBTQ+ health information practices. In the 83rd Annual Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Kitzie, V., Wagner, T.L., & Vera, N. (2020). “In the beginning, it was little whispers…now, we’re almost a roar”: Conceptualizing a model for community and self in LGBTQ+ health information practices. [Lee Dirks Best Paper Award Nominee]. In A. Sundqvist, G. Berget, J. NolinKjell, & I. Skjerdingstad (Eds.), Sustainable digital communities: 15th International Conference, iConference 2020, Boras, Sweden, March 23–26, 2020, Proceedings (pp. 15–31). Switzerland, AG: Springer, Cham.

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