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.
Announcing special guest speaker sessions from two renown authors!
Hear from Tiffany Jewell, author of This Book is Antiracist and The Antiracist Kid, and Dr. Kiara Butler, author of Terms and Conditions: The Fine Print to an Anti-Racist Society.
Join us next month to learn How to Build an Antiracist Library Culture. You will hear from experts from inside and outside the library world and gain tools to impact meaningful change in your library. Hurry, register by September 12th for our Advance Rate!
Upon completion of this course, you will be equipped to:
Evaluate your current DEI practices to engage in more authentic self-reflection and self-assessment
Use data to assess your organization's progress on antiracism initiatives
Use data to center communities and understand their programming and service needs
Employ participatory design to build programs and services hand in hand with communities
Recognize implicit bias and maintain a commitment to equity and antiracism during conflict
Recognize key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality
Assess current library programs through a culturally competent, antiracist lens
Recognize problematic stereotypes, tropes, acts of implicit/explicit bias, and microaggressions
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