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What Works? What Doesn't Work? What Action Can We Take?, Jennifer Hughes, Michelle Lewis
What Works? What Doesn't Work? What Action Can We Take?, Jennifer Hughes, Michelle Lewis
South Carolina Libraries
This session demonstrated an effective and engaging exercise that empowers library staff to take action! Participants learned how to lead library strategic planning processes, change implementation, and assessment activities in a welcoming, non-intimidating manner that fosters an environment of ongoing collaboration, solutions-based results, reflection, and improvement.
Archival Research In The Time Of Coronavirus, Kelly K. Hudson, Heather Gilbert
Archival Research In The Time Of Coronavirus, Kelly K. Hudson, Heather Gilbert
South Carolina Libraries
Two Special Collections directors explore the challenges and strategies of delivering archival services during a global pandemic at their respective academic repositories: Special Collections at the College of Charleston and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
Managing Without Capitalism: Transforming Library Leadership In Service Of Anti-Racism, Inclusion, And Equity, Heather Slania
Managing Without Capitalism: Transforming Library Leadership In Service Of Anti-Racism, Inclusion, And Equity, Heather Slania
New Librarianship Symposia Series: Fall 2021
Library leaders at all levels are grappling with addressing institutional racism. Despite years of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) interventions and a recognition of the overwhelming whiteness of libraries, the profession is not a better or safer place for library workers of color, people from other marginalized communities, or anyone who has had to endure the normalized toxic library work environment.
Leaders are stuck and previous interventions have failed primarily due to two factors:
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Modern libraries (and the institutions that hold them) were constructed as tools of white supremacy.
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Library leadership and management concepts/practices are rooted in capitalism.
Numerous …