Starting next week! Don't miss your chance to learn how to prepare and respond to censorship challenges and how to create a more equitable library culture.
Censorship and Banned Books: How to Defend Intellectual Freedom
Starting next week! Don't miss your chance to learn how to prepare and respond to censorship challenges and how to create a more equitable library culture.
How To Build an Antiracist Library Culture
September 26, October 3 and 10
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 course, you’ll be able 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
Who should take this course: Any educator or librarian wanting to help contribute to an antiracist culture in their institution.
Censorship and Banned Books: How to Defend Intellectual Freedom
September 27
Library collections must be diverse and inclusive, offering windows into and reflections of the vast array of people, stories and experiences that make up our world. 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 and how to establish policies for keeping your inclusive collections safe against book challenges.
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
Assess and revise your collection policies to address censorship
Find allies to join you in protecting intellectual freedom
Who should take this course: Any educator or librarian wanting to learn how to build and maintain diverse collections.