Make lasting impact to your library by learning how to address censorship challenges and how to build inclusive collections.

Our two can't-miss courses this spring will ensure you leave with the tools to audit your collections, make inclusive buying decisions, and defend the books on your shelf to promote diversity and intellectual freedom.

Course Overview: Resisting Book Bans: A Crash Course to Defend Intellectual Freedom

The last few years have seen a drastic uptick in book bans and curriculum challenges. As a librarian, teacher, administrator, or trustee, it can be difficult to know your options for managing these challenges and advocating for intellectual freedom and diverse educational materials. This crash course will focus on proactive preparation to ensure you are set up for success. Live sessions will be available on-demand.

Course Overview: How To Build and Defend Inclusive Collections

In this course, you’ll learn from an outstanding group of experts as they explore key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting inclusive and equitable collections. You’ll conduct a diversity and inclusion audit of your collections and hear about ways to include wider perspectives from and about LGBTQIA people, Black, indigenous, and people of color, and historically underrepresented ethnicities, cultures, and religions. You’ll learn how to ensure that your collections are more reflective of the diversity of your community and the larger world.

After you attend this interactive online course and workshop, you’ll be able to:

Assess current library collections, book promotions, and displays through a diverse lens in order to assess gaps in collections and service areas
Understand key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, unconscious bias, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality
Recognize common problematic stereotypes, tropes, and microaggressions in media
Assess the diversity and inclusiveness of current collection development and RA practices
Plan and execute a diversity audit
Diversify collections and displays with cultural humility and confidence

Here’s what a past participant said about their learning experience with How to Build and Defend Inclusive Collections:

"This is probably the best workshop I have attended in all my years in the library business (25+) and by far the most important one I have attended this year.”

- Kim Valeika, Program and Outreach Manager, Davis County Library

Extend your learning and save more by pairing this course with its companion course, Jumpstart Inclusive Cataloging, a 1-day workshop starting April 19. View bundle discounts at registration.