| Session 1 | 2:00-2:45PM ET
Dismantling White Supremacy in the Library
Learn how white supremacy is baked into our institutions and how it manifests on individual and systemic levels in this insightful session. You’ll learn how to spot both explicit and implicit racism and identify white supremacy at work. You will come away with a deeper understanding of how to dismantle white supremacy from your sphere of influence, both within the LIS, and beyond it.
Speaker:
Andrea Blackman, Chief Diversity Officer, City of Nashville; former Special Collections Division Manager, Nashville Public Library (TN)
Session 2 | 3:00-3:45PM ET
Unpacking and Challenging Implicit Bias
Combatting racism and injustice in the information and library sciences requires ongoing commitment and personal investment. Part of this work relies on understanding the ways our individual privilege and biases function interpersonally and within larger systems. In this session, you’ll learn how implicit bias shapes the culture of our libraries, how to make biases visible and therefore addressable, and what your role is in cultivating a welcoming and inclusive environment at your library. You’ll also learn about how to identify stereotypes, microaggressions, and more.
Speaker:
Tarica LaBossiere, Assistant Public Defender, Broward County Office of the Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale (FL), Member of the American Association of Law Libraries Session 3 | 3:45-4:15PM ET
The Equity Landscape in LIS
In this session, you’ll learn about the state of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the library and information sciences, including a discussion of Critical Race Theory and its place in LIS.|
Speaker:
To be announced soon Part 2: Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:00-4:00PM ET Session 1 | 2:00-2:45PM ET
Antibias/Antiracist Hiring Practices and Recruitment
Creating an antiracist culture at your library must involve consideration of staff culture and hiring practices. In this session, you’ll learn how to develop and implement antiracist/antibias recruitment and hiring practices (including antiracist interviewing and candidate selection), steps to take toward fostering inclusive workplaces, and how to conduct an organizational talent equity audit at your own library.
Speakers:
Sojourna J. Cunningham, Social Sciences and Assessment Librarian, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond (VA)
Jennifer Stout, Teaching and Learning Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, Richmond (VA)
Samantha Guss, Social Sciences Librarian, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond (VA) Session 2 | 3:00-3:45PM ET
Creating Antiracist Library Programming
Learn how to assess your library programs and services and develop a plan of action for the future. We’ll take you through how to audit your current programming, establish a protocol for your audit, and what to do with the results once you have them, in this session designed to help you tackle gaps in your programming and address barriers to access in your community.
Speaker:
Kimberly Brown-Harden, Community Branch, Manager, Indianapolis Public Library (IN) Session 3 | 3:45-4:15PM ET
Building Diverse Collections and Displays
In this session, an expert librarian will discuss how you can assess the level of equity at your library by conducting regular audits of collections, displays, and programming. This vital work will help you align offerings to community needs, identify gaps in service, and set benchmarks for equity, inclusion, and diversity. You will learn how to perform a diversity audit, including which salient data points should be included, how to gather the requisite information, how to set goals to address gaps, and how to make diversity and inclusion integral parts of collection management and promotion.
Speaker:
To be announced soon Part 3 - Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 2:00-4:00PM ET Session 1 | 2:00-2:45PM ET
Engaging Your Local Community in Antiracism Work
Learn how connecting with your community and its past can open up rich conversations about the future in this inspiring session. This session will include an exploration of how librarians can use their institutions’ collections and resources to help patrons, students, and community members explore, critically analyze, and combat systemic racism, how librarians can apply an antiracist lens to engaging their communities, and how to use community engagement as a tool to transform their organization into an antiracist one.
Speaker:
To be announced soon Session 2 | 2:45-3:15PM ET
Antiracism as ROI
The more we invest in antiracism, the more we will get out of our libraries. With the stagnation of a workforce that is over 80% white, libraries need to commit to including new voices and perspectives in our spaces. With an influx of new influences, concepts, and processes that BIPOC and other historically underrepresented people bring to the workforce, there will be a great advance in innovative thinking, new ways of doing things and new directions for our libraries. In this session, you’ll learn how antiracism, purely on its ROI, is a great way to go with public resources.
Speaker:
Max Macias, Independent Librarian
Session 3 | 3:30-4:15PM ET
How To Create Impactful Change (Or: Doing the Work Even if You’re the Only One Doing It)
In this closing session of our course, you’ll learn how to make valuable change from within your sphere of influence, regardless of your institutional support system or lack thereof. You’ll learn practical ways to navigate organizational politics and power structures and come away with ideas for where to go next, now that you have the tools you need to dig deeper into cultivating actively antiracist practices at your library.
Speaker:
To be announced soon | 
