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Equity & Social Justice Advisory Group Resources: Social Justice and Librarianship

Last Updated: Feb 19, 2024 11:47 AM

Books about Library Neutrality

Humanizing LIS Education and Practice book cover

Humanizing LIS Education and Practice

Humanizing LIS Education and Practice: Diversity by Designdemonstrates that diversity concerns are relevant to all and need to be approached in a systematic way.

Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization book cover

Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization

Reflective dialogue asks us to pause before reacting, to ground ourselves in a sense of compassion for ourselves and others, and to use that grounding to open a space to listen and to speak with the goal of recognizing a shared humanity and appreciating difference. In four sections, Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization explores the various ways in which librarians experience and respond to political polarization and its effects, both in our everyday work and in our professional communities.

Unfinished Business : race, equity, and diversity in library and information science education book cover

Unfinished Business : race, equity, and diversity in library and information science education

"In the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, Unfinished Business: Race, Equity, and Diversity in Library and Information Science Education provides evidence that few, if any, library and information science (LIS) programs were ever integrated. With an impressive cast of contributors that includes experienced faculty and students, Unfinished Business tackles the issue of diversity from three distinct perspectives: external and environmental forces, student recruitment, and faculty/curriculum issues."

Librarianship and Human Rights book cover

Librarianship and Human Rights

In this book, the reader will encounter a myriad of urgent library and information voices reflecting contemporary local, national, and transnational calls to action on conflicts generated by failures to acknowledge human rights, by struggles for recognition and representation, by social exclusion, and the library institution's role therein. These voices infuse library and information work worldwide into social movements and the global discourse of human rights, they depict library and information workers as political actors, they offer some new possibilities for strategies of resistance, and they challenge networks of control. 

Library Neutrality and Vocational Awe

Social Justice in Libraries

Intersectionality

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