Background Reading

The concept of cultural humility was first developed by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-García, for the health professions:

Tervalon, M.; Murray-García, J. (1998). "Cultural Humility versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education". Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 117-125. http://melanietervalon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/CulturalHumility_Tervalon-and-Murray-Garcia-Article.pdf

To understand how we think about cultural humilities in libraries, you are welcome to read our article:

Hurley, D.A., Kostelecky, S.R. and Townsend, L. (2019), "Cultural humility in libraries", Reference Services Review, Vol. 47 No. 4, pp. 544-555. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-06-2019-0042

Don't have access to References Services Review? An uncorrected proof is available here: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ulls_fsp/136/

We also recorded the presentation we developed for the 2019 Joint Conference of the New Mexico Library Association and the Mountain/Plains Library Association: Shifting Focus: The Potential of the Cultural Humility Approach in Libraries