Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the
University of California, Berkeley (LAUC-B)
Where: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
When: October 4, 2019, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Critical librarianship is “a movement of library workers dedicated to bringing social justice principles into our work in libraries. We aim to engage in discussion about critical perspectives on library practice. Recognizing that we all work under regimes of white supremacy, capitalism, and a range of structural inequalities, how can our work as librarians intervene in and disrupt those systems?”
Shelf Awareness: The Intersections of Social Justice and Critical Librarianship is the theme of the 2019 conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California at Berkeley. Join us in downtown Berkeley on October 4, 2019 for a day of discussion and reflection about the ways the structure and practice of our profession both disrupt and reinforce systematic oppression.
Conference logo design by Melissa Stoner
Statement of Land Acknowledgement
Native American Student Development recognizes that Berkeley sits on the territory of Huichin, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Ohlone people. We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold University of California Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.