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  [Please share widely!] Please join us! Greetings Friends! We hope you and yours are safe and well. Hinchas Press and Librarians with Spines presents another stimulating session to help you through the pandemic! Please join us in an engaging conversation about ethnographies, scholarship, identity, books, culture and more! Librarians with Spines editors, Yago Cura and Max Macias, Librarians with Spines Designer/Art Director Autumn Anglin Interview Judy Lee and Melissa Cardenas-Dow about their amazing work.   Judy and Melissa wrote an amazing chapter in Librarians with Spines Vol. 2 called: LWS2 - Remembering Consciousness is Power: Working to Center Academic Library Outreach in the Service of Social Justice, Asian and Pacific Islander American Ethnic Visibility, and Coalition-Building December 7th, 2020 10am PST on Zoom! Please register for free here: https://www. librarianswithspines.com/post/ remembering-consciousness-is- power-an-ethnographic-session- with-judy-lee-and-meli...

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Scientists, Mathematicians, Computer types and other data driven colleagues, please join us for a special antiracist session about how we can center racial equity throughout data integration in our work at PCC.  Our guest speaker is Angela Bluhm! Event Date and Time: November 10th, 2020: 1pm PST Session description: Since 2019, AISP (Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy) at the University of Pennsylvania has led a diverse workgroup of civic data stakeholders to co-create strategies and identify best practices to center racial equity in data integration efforts. Angela Bluhm is an Analyst for the Educator Advancement Council in the Oregon Department of Education. Angela worked with the AISP while serving as Research, Data, and Communications Coordinator for the Oregon Longitudinal Data Collaborative in the Chief Education Office and later in the Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC). Angela will discuss the work of the AISP, the Toolkit for Centering Racial...

 

Antiracist libraries acknowledge the fallacy of being neutral in the face of racism.   Libraries are racist or antiracist.   Just like individuals—libraries cannot just say they are ‘not racist.’   Being an antiracist library means that they are actively working to dismantle racism and white supremacy in their libraries and communities.   Being antiracist also means they are working to dismantle the oppression of marginalized people. Allowing bigots to perpetuate fear in the community is antithetical to the antiracist library.   The antiracist library is an enemy to bigotry.   The antiracist library is constantly reflecting on ‘neutral’ stances when it comes to ALL library policies.   Collection development, meeting room policies, website design, user satisfaction analysis, usage metrics and all other library policies need to be antiracist, or they are racist.   There is no in between. So, when the library community says, “Libraries are for all!...