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In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library's role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated. Librarians must serve as community leaders with a mission to educate and inform, ready to model the principles they support. The question for many is: how?
Experienced librarians offer ideas and guidance in seeking new creative paths, working to support change in library organizations and reexamining principles that may be taken for granted. Theoretical foundations are discussed, along with practical ideas such as the creation a book groups for the intellectually disabled and partnership with social workers or advocates for employees with disabilities.
List of contents
Table of ContentsForeword (Wanda Kay Brown)
Preface (Su Epstein, Vera Gubnitskaia and Carol Smallwood)
Part I-Bringing Underrepresentation to the Forefront
Literacy Support for the Intellectually Disabled: A New Frontier
for Library Outreach (Matthew Conner and Leah Plocharczyk)
Prison Libraries and Social Justice: Helping Inmates Succeed (Andrew Hart)
Buttressed Beliefs, Informed Action: Black Lives Matter, an Academic
Library and Building Critical Community Discourse (Ian Boucher)
Improving Everyday Lives: Free Administrative Legal Assistance
and Critical Trans* Politics in Libraries (Elliott Kuecker)
Part II-Establishing Partnerships
Food for Thought: Feeding Mind and Body at Public Libraries (Amber H. Williams, Erica Freudenberger and Cindy Fesemyer)
Partnering for Social Justice: Social Work Students' Placement
at Public Libraries (Sarah C. Johnson)
Unidos por la Causa: Community-Driven Collection Development
for Chicanx Archives (Zoe Jarocki and Amanda Lanthorne)
Part III-Building Communities
Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Active Social Spaces (Carrie Fishner and Lisa Tessier)
Building Community in an Academic Library (Carolyn Frey and Jami Powell )
Critical Librarianship in Action: Supporting Campus-Wide Dialogues (Maureen Rust and Aimée C. Quinn)
Part IV-Administering with Diversity
Advocacy from Within: Employees with Disabilities (JJ Pionke)
Healing Justice: An Approach of Caring for Intersectional LIS Professionals (Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Tonyia J. Tidline and Tracy S. Drake)
Encouraging Social Justice Professional Development (Laura Francabandera)
Reflecting Diversity in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (Elizabeth Hobart)
Part V-Supporting Activism
The Archival Is Political: Archival Practice as Political Practice (Anna J. Clutterbuck-Cook and Jeremy Brett)
Hip Hop and Activism: Bridging Boundaries and Healing Through
Hip Hop Pedagogy (Kai Alexis Smith)
Bringing Critical Race Theory to the Library Bill of Rights: From the Past to the Future (Celeste Bocchicchio-Chaudhri)
Collaborative Justice: Gender-Based Activism in the University Library
Carrie Moran and Leandra Preston-Sidler
Part VI-Generating Programming
Creating Communities Through Living Books: The Human Library
Experience at Southern New Hampshire University (Heather Walker-White and Joshua Becker)
Check(Out) Your Privilege, or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love Putting on a Diversity Event (Damon Campbell, Lydia Harlan and Rachel Lilley)
Moving Beyond Just Talk: Diversity Programming at an Academic Library (Martin L. Garnar)
Getting Serious in the Public Library with "Current Conversations" (Jamie L. Huber, Whitney R. Gerwitz, Heather M. Wefel and Melanie Foster)
Part VII-Expanding Teaching
Teaching Social Justice with Special Collections and Archives: Critical
Information Literacy and Primary Source Analysis (Julie M. Porterfield)
Research Skills in International Issues and Social Justice Programs:
Talking Points and Literature Review (Paul Jerome McLaughlin, Jr.)
Advocating for Diversity Through Embedded Librarianship (Faith L. Bradham)
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Su Epstein is the director at the Saxton B. Little Free Library in Columbia, Connecticut. Her writing has appeared in several publications as well as the blog Public Libraries Online.A Michigan resident, Carol Smallwood has practiced in school, public and special libraries. Her primary interest is practical librarianship, and she is the author of journal articles and editor of numerous books.Vera Gubnitskaia has worked as a library manager, consultant, and reference librarian in public and academic libraries in Russia and the United States. She has contributed chapters to several professional publications, edited multiple anthologies, and published book reviews. She is currently an art fellow at Crealde School in Winter Park, Florida.
