Liberatory librarianship : stories of community, connection, and justice

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"How can librarianship be liberatory? How does librarianship help people to be free? How is library capacity and expertise used to increase freedom, justice, and community? This invigorating collected volume from Core unpacks these questions, and many others besides, to reveal the many ways that library workers and their institutions are applying skills, knowledge, abilities, professional ethics, and personal commitment to practice liberatory lib...

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Librarians Professional ethics

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Libraries Social aspects

Libraries and community

Libraries and minorities

Social justice Libraries

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ISBN:

9780838936610

Description:

xix, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

"In collaboration with CORE."
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction to liberatory librarianship Brain W. Keith ; Laurie Taylor ; Shamin Renwick Part I: Liberatory librarians
Dr. Alma Jordan Shamin Renwick
Lilian Marrero: sanctuary and solidarity through libraries Tania Marîa Rîos Marrero
Rosa Quintero Mesa: the University of Florida's librarianship defied global politics Richard Phillips
Judith Rogers: visionary and organic leader Laurie Taylor
Part II: Programs that support liberation
Liberatory librarianship in a public library Brian Boies
The KNOW systemic racism project at Standford University Felicia A. Smith
Part III : the personal as professional
My brother's keeper Tiffany J. Grant ; LaWanda Singleton ; Clementine Adeyemi
Disabled in the library JJ Pionke
Part IV: Histories of libreration
Elevating diverse voices in service of liberatory librarianship Willa Liburd Tavernier ; Ursula Romero ; Christina Jones
Unsiloed, cross-jurisdictional DEI Tiffany J. Grant ; Mikaila Corday ; Michelle McKinney ; Margaux Patel ; Eira Tansey ; June Taylor-Slaughter
Hidden histories and radical reading lists : restorative justice at SOAS library Farzana Qureshi ; Ludi Price
g Part V: Liberatory instruction and training
"We are ... library users!" : developing a liberatory library instruction program for college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities Bernadette A. Lear
Critical reflections on the University of Kentucky's basic archives workshop: status quo or transformation? Sarah Dorpinghaus ; Ruth E. Bryan
Part VI: Imagining and enacting liberation together
Empathy as resistance?: the concept of empathy in liberatory librarianship Sabine Jean Dantus
Appenix: acronyms
About the editors and contributors
Index

LCCN:

2023042597

Control Number:

3355623

Other Authors:

Adeyemi, Clementine, contributor
Boies, Brian, contributor
Bryan, Ruth E., contributor
Corday, Mikaila, contributor
Dantus, Sabine Jean, contributor
Dorpinghaus, Sarah, contributor
Grant, Tiffany J., contributor
Jones, Christina (Librarian), contributor
Keith, Brian W., 1969- editor, contributor
Lear, Bernadette A., contributor
Marrero, Tania Marîa Rîos, contributor
McKinney, Michelle, contributor
Patel, Margaux, contributor
Phillips, Richard F. (Richard Frederick), 1949- contributor
Pionke, J. J., contributor
Price, Ludi, contributor
Qureshi, Farzana, contributor
Renwick, Shamin, 1961- editor, contributor
Romero, Ursula, contributor
Singleton, LaWanda, contributor
Smith, Felicia A., contributor
Tansey, Eira , contributor
Tavernier, Willa Liburd, contributor
Taylor, Laurie N., 1978- editor, contributor
Taylor-Slaughter, June, contributor

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