Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of implicit bias, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens—to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library.
Make real and lasting change in your library by prioritizing your DEI goals. Whether you're just getting started with your equity goals or you're ready to dig deeper, our spring courses have something for you.
Transform your library or classroom culture now with help from How to Build an Antiracist Library Culture and Antiracism 201: Digging Deeper in Antiracist Library Cultures.
Featured Course: How To Build an Antiracist Library Culture
Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of implicit bias, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens—to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library.
After you attend this interactive online course and workshop, you’ll be able to:
Evaluate your current EDI practices to engage in more authentic self-reflection and self-assessment,
Recognize key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, unconscious bias, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality,
Assess current library programs, staffing, hiring, equity statements, and more through a culturally competent, antiracist lens,
Recognize problematic stereotypes, tropes, acts of implicit/explicit bias, and microaggressions,
Engage in an equity-focused project that you initiate, define, and work on in a group workshop with asynchronous, written feedback from a group facilitator
Featured Speakers:
Audrey Barbakoff,
EdD., MLIS, CEO, Co/lab Capacity LLC
Angel Jewel Tucker, Youth Services Manager, Johnson County Library, Overland Park (KS)
Dominic Davis,
Community Development Specialist for the City of Madison, Community Development Division, Department of Planning and Community & Economic Development
Featured Course: Antiracism 201: Digging Deeper in Antiracist Library Cultures
Antiracism and EDI work - both personal and professional - are not destinations; they are ongoing, lifelong journeys, and librarians and educators are often at very different places in those journeys. This advanced course will assume attendees come with foundational antiracism knowledge and are ready to think deeper and learn more about EDI theories and practices than they have in the past. You will learn tenets of race theories, Black feminist thought, and antiracist methodologies to inform and transform your programs, policies, and curricula.
This is an intermediate/advanced course and is appropriate for anyone who already has a foundational understanding of antiracism and/or who has taken How to Build an Antiracist Library Culture. This course is for all levels of educators and librarians, from frontline staff to directors, and is intended for people who wish to go deeper into antiracist theories and methods.
Course Advisor
Christina Fuller Gregory, Assistant Director of Libraries, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville
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