Readings
February 13
Powell, C., Smith, H., & Hearn, S. (2018). This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker. KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies, 2(1).
Smith, H. A. (2018). Radical Love: Documenting Underrepresented Communities Using Principles of Radical Empathy. Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists, 15.
Caswell, M., Migoni, A. A., Geraci, N., & Cifor, M. (2016). ‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: community archives and the importance of representation. Archives and Records, 1-22.
Foster, M. J. & Evans, M. R. (2016). Libraries creating sustainable services during community crisis: Documenting Ferguson. Library Management, 37(6/7), 352-362.
Cooke Webinar: https://vimeo.com/236638031
Futterman, M. (2008). Finding the Underserved: Close Examination using market segmentation can reveal useful surprises about the people your library is leaving behind. Library Journal. Available at: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2008/10/managing-libraries/finding-the-underserved/#_
Information Services to Diverse Populations, Chapter 4, pp. 47-51
February 20
The Process of Writing and Publishing a Children's Book from Beginning to End with Breanna McDaniel - The LaziMillennial Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfieg5OYASc
(2017 Nov). Bloom, Sam. “RWW Interviews: Sarah Park Dahlen.” Reading While White.
Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books? (Walter Dean Meyers)
The Apartheid of Children’s Literature (Christopher Meyers)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/the-apartheid-of-childrens-literature.html
Robinson, T. (2016). Overcoming social exclusion in public library services to LGBTQ and gender variant youth. Public Library Quarterly, 35(3), 161-174.
Maccio, E. M., & Ferguson, K. M. (2016). Services to LGBTQ runaway and homeless youth: Gaps and recommendations. Children and Youth Services Review, 63, 47-57.
Hamer, J. S. (2003). Coming-out: Gay males' information seeking. School Libraries Worldwide, 73-89. (google scholar)
February 27
Larrotta, C. (2017). Immigrants to the United States and adult education services. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017(155), 61-69. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ace.20241?casa_token=C6uw2FF0JlwAAAAA:d1pGDhgcg3is5ZeAY-_DexpCyPf_o-EdKmRTEDiR3hV7ir06SaSB6Hu8hy3UiWaP5x1DE0Kdn5FGyc2C
VanDyne, H. (2018). Reaching the Hispanic Community through Bilingual Storytime Outreach. Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table, 9(1), 28-32. https://www.journals.ala.org/index.php/endnotes/article/view/6691
Westbrook, L. (2015). “I’m Not a Social Worker”: An Information Service Model for Working with Patrons in Crisis. The Library Quarterly, 85(1), 6-25.
Hines, S. G. (2017). Connecting individuals with social services: The academic library's role. Collaborative Librarianship, 9(2), 8.
Harper, M. (2017). Helping students who hurt: Care based policies and practices for the school library. School Libraries Worldwide, 23(1).
March 19
ALA: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
Allied Projects Media Website: Network Principles
Allied Projects Media Website: Media-based Organizing
Disrupting Whiteness: Three Perspectives on White Anti-Racist Librarianship With essays by Melissa Kalpin Prescott, Kristyn Caragher, and Katie Dover-Taylor
March 26
Information Services to Diverse Populations, Chapter 6, pp. 126-130
The Critical Role Librarians Play in the Opioid Crisis: https://www.ted.com/talks/chera_kowalski_the_critical_role_librarians_play_in_the_opioid_crisis?language=en#t-4549
Schnitzer, A. E. (2015). Outreach to Addiction—A Month of Investing in Ability: A Case Study. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 34(3), 334-342.
Opioid Crisis Town Hall: Library Needs and Responses (even if the recording isn’t available, there are many good resources here): https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/opioid-crisis-town-hall.html/
April 9
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic. June 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/.
Gross, Terry and Richard Rothstein. “A ‘Forgotten History’ of How the U.S. Government Segregated America.” NRP. 3 May 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america.
Mahajan, Karan. "The Two Asian Americas." The New Yorker. 21 Oct. 2015. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-asian-americas
Dar, Mahnaz. "Robin DiAngelo on Confronting White Fragility | ALA Midwinter." 2019 Jan. 31. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=robin-diangelo-on-confronting-white-fragility-ala-midwinter
Lozada, Carlos. "The Racism of Good Intentions." Washington Post. 15 April 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/04/15/the-racism-of-good-intentions/
Jay Smooth’s 2011 TEDxHampshireCollege Talk “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race.”
April 16
Collins, A. (2018). Language, Power, and Oppression in the LIS Diversity Void. Library Trends.
Anti-Oppression: Anti-Oppression & Simmons
Acknowledging the Elephant in the Library: Making Implicit Biases Explicit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SioZDj-sKnA
Information Services to Diverse Populations, Chapter 5, pp. 96-105
Cooke, N. A. (2012). Professional development 2.0 for librarians: Developing an online personal learning network (PLN). Library Hi Tech News, 29(3), 1-9. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/07419051211241840/full/html?casa_token=wHWxo1So-CQAAAAA:SJ2ks_n0jmZwPD7duua45hQdPeq1vZwworAonMX2FegdC6npLJFSB3Ej4Iewyk1e_EgHHjJhOwVCGGO2iKYEuB4GTv34jpeP0mi9Urci5jxM5tnQQdrn