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.

Course Overview: 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

Course Overview: 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.

You’ll complete assignments over 3+ weeks in an interactive online classroom environment with personal coaching from an expert in the field. In addition, you’ll have access to our foundational bonus content—rich supporting materials you can explore at your own pace, including a series of webinars from Library Journal and School Library Journal contributors, readings, activities, and videos.

Group Discounts 

Our courses are perfect for your team!

Group rates available now!

Request a discount for groups of 3 or more 

and work with your colleagues on a project for your library.

Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses.

Coming Up 

Want even more options for fall? Check out our entire lineup:

Fall Courses 

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