Lowrider Librarian

  [Please share widely!] Hi Everyone,  I hope you and yours are safe and healthy. It is with great excitement and honor that the Oregon Library Association's Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Antiracism present the OLA EDI Antiracism Toolkit! You can download a copy at the Oregon Library Association Web Site , or the State Library of Oregon website . A paper copy of this toolkit will be distributed to every library in Oregon.  They will also receive a digital copy to print and share with staff.  We tried to make this toolkit as practical as possible!  A  antiracism readiness checklist survey is part of the toolkit.  We are asking library staff  in Oregon to fill out the survey/checklist so that we may get some informaiton on Oregon libraries  (see pre-conference information below).   We are asking that the survey be filled out by   Friday, March 19, 11:59pm to give us time to prep for our pre-conference session...

  Racists or other bigots are NOT welcome in a library that values their community.

We can do so much better than this! What are you going to do about the dominance of whiteness in libraries? I mean right now--there is no time to waste--what will you do?  Source  

  "I'm back out on that road again Turn this beast into the wind There are those that break and bend I'm the other kind, I'm the other kind" Steve Earle 

 I was honored to be be selected to speak at San Jose State's Information School last month. San Jo is my hometown and it was super cool to be able to speak at SJSU! I hope you enjoy this. Comments encouraged! Special thanks to Dr. Michele Villagran and San Jose State!

  [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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