Register your team for Equity in Action: Fostering an Antiracist Library Culture and you’ll increase your impact and save with group rates. Library Journal and School Library Journal offer group discounts so that your team can learn together and implement an equity-based initiative in your library immediately.

When you sign up as a group, your team will be placed in the same small workshop group, where discussions and project-based assignments receive feedback from an experienced librarian. 

The speaker program runs on February 23, March 2, and March 9, 2-4 pm ET (recordings available) with an ongoing workshop over three weeks.

Contact libraryjournal@edmaker.co for group discounts.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Use tools to audit current library collections and programs through a culturally competent lens
• Assess the inclusiveness of current collection development and RA practices, acquisitions, marketing, plus assessing scheduling practices, branch hours, and staff hiring and retention
• Recognize common problematic stereotypes, tropes, and microaggressions in media
• Apply key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, unconscious bias, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality to library culture

Online course features:

• Instructor-led online course features personalized interaction over three weeks
• Real-time guest speakers and conversation via live webcast (with recordings available afterward)
• Self-guided curriculum with video lessons and supporting resources in the online classroom to provide a foundation for your work
• Assignments to help you make progress on your goals
• Individualized attention from course facilitators who work with you in a coaching environment to help sort out challenges
• Ongoing group conversation via discussion forums
• Articles, videos, and other resources
• Access all course content for six months after the course ends

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In this course you will complete assignments to build your own equity-based initiative over three weeks in an interactive online classroom environment with personal coaching from an expert in the field. In addition, you’ll have access to our foundational bonus content—a series of webinars from Library Journal and School Library Journal contributors along with rich supporting materials in the form of readings, activities, and videos—to explore at your own pace.

All sessions will be available to you “on-demand” following the initial broadcast.

Who Should Take This Course:
This event is excellent for public librarians, both adult and youth services; academic librarians; and school librarians. The program will be especially relevant to librarians in collection development, collection management, merchandising and displays, programming, outreach, and library marketing.