Spring 2023 Lectures
Additional Resources:
Top 10 most challenged books: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks
Unite Against Book Bans: uniteagainstbookbans.org
Voters Oppose Book Bans in Libraries: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/voters-oppose-book-bans-libraries
(We Read Banned Books Slide) ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom : https://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/oif
The Merritt Fund: https://bit.ly/3xrduLl
Report Censorship: ala.org/challengereporting
"Our Brave Communities" with Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada
2022-2023 ALA President Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada will share her insights on the opportunities and challenges in libraries, librarianship, and for library workers in our current world and the near future.
Recording
Additional Resources Shared:
Library Perception Gap: https://www.ala.org/united/sites/ala.org.united/files/content/advocacy/Es%20of%20Library%20Expanded%20Doc%20Color.pdf
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library: https://www.amazon.com/Overdue-Reckoning-Library-Amanda-Oliver/dp/1641605316
This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information: https://www.amazon.com/This-What-Librarian-Looks-Like/dp/0316393983
Libraries Should Take Sides Breaking Down the Neutrality Myth: https://hacklibraryschool.com/2020/02/25/libraries-should-take-sides/
Trauma-Informed Organizational Change Manual: https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/social-research/institutes-centers/institute-on-trauma-and-trauma-informed-care/Trauma-Informed-Organizational-Change-Manual0.html
Recording
"Flourish or Perish: Exploring the Lived Experience of Trauma in Librarianship" with Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty
Speaking personal truths and professional observations from 20+ years in library, archives, and special collections work, Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, challenges librarians and archivists to recenter their emotional investment in the hierarchical conflicts among themselves and honestly engage with the realities of contemporary library work and how their work as librarians is viewed by society at large.
"Flourish or Perish" Slides
Additional Resources & Book Recommendations:
Purchase a copy of Harry Potter and the Other Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/H/Harry-Potter-and-the-Other
Amari and the Night Brothers: https://amzn.to/3SHVmGZ
A Taste of Magic: https://amzn.to/3mkYGM0
Taylor Wolford: The Legendborn: https://amzn.to/3EUqpK5
Article: The Real Censorship in Children's Books: Smiling Slaves is just the Half of it
APALA Rubric to Evaluate Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Literature
"Life After Potter: Revisiting Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World" with Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen and Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Dr. Dahlen and Dr. Thomas discuss the purpose and process of co-editing their Harry Potter scholarly anthology during a period of social change in children's publishing and beyond.
Additional Resources:
A recent book chapter of mine: Collections Are Our Relatives Disrupting the Singular, White Man’s Joy That Shaped Collections: https://mru.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/mru%3A793
Gratitude in the Archives, by Genevieve Weber: https://garlandmag.com/article/gratitude-in-the-archives/
Centering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/46601/ko_47_2020_5_e.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu DSpace Submission: https://dspace.lib.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10790/5556/komeiji.k-2021-0001.pdf
Info about library unions and an upcoming publication from ALA: https://twitter.com/edrabinski/status/1613978395708166160?s=12&t=qCsVQxRnF4TU5ChmrFHVag
Indigenous TikTok Is Transforming Cultural Knowledge: https://canadianart.ca/essays/indigenous-tiktok-is-transforming-cultural-knowledge/
"Digital Kinship and Librarians" with Jessie Loyer
Librarians exist within a web of relationships: to our students, to our patrons, to our peers, and to the information we broker. Indigenous worldviews tend to describe these relationships in more fulsome ways. Using the Cree concept of wâhkôhtowin provides a structure for librarians to be thoughtful and precise in how we build this kinship, especially as our collections can be sites of misinformation and trauma around Indigenous topics.
"Rosarium Publishing: Introducing the World to Itself Since 2013" with Bill campbell
Bill Campbell will discuss his journey from author to publisher and Rosarium's accomplishments and continued mission to expand the fields of speculative fiction and comics.