Black Memory Workers — Zakiya Collier
Read Open Letter to President Garimella and University of Arizona Board now from Blog for Arizona for Politics from a Liberal Viewpoint
Dear President Garimella, On January 21, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded its policy restricting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in sensitive areas …
DEI disconnect: Students have more hope as political pressure grows
While top brass in conservative circles aim to curtail DEI, college students are optimistic about diversity, according to a new survey.
Uptick in First Amendment Audits | American Libraries Magazine
Libraries are now reporting more aggressive, targeted, and organized First Amendment audits than in years past.
How to address misinformation and sovereign citizens in law libraries
Beyond Book Banning: Efforts to Criminally Charge Librarians
Both the Indiana and Iowa State Legislatures have introduced legislation regarding criminally charging libraries and librarians over “inappropriate” material. These bills are closely related to widespread book challenges occurring at schools and public libraries across the nation, with people trying to remove books that address certain topics relating to gender, sexuality, and race from library collections. In many cases there is already a clear process for reconsidering materials in a collection, so how do legal defenses play a role in this and what do the bills change?
Library Patron Loneliness: Strategies for Building Community and Connection
Editor’s Note: This guest post has been authored by Alejandro Marquez (Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of Denver Libraries) and Brady Niemitalo Woods (Patron Training Specialist at Jefferson County Public Library, Colorado).
The fall semester started recently, marking the begi
Between the Lines: What Is Missing in the Diversity in Publishing Discourse
On Saturdays in late ’90s, my father, a taxi driver, would pool his tips for the week and take me, a child too precocious for his own good, to a local bookstore in search of my next read. Together,…
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Addressing Weight Stigma in Libraries to Promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Trauma-Informed Librarianship for Survivors
By Allan Cho (Follow us on LinkedIn) As part of the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Network (ViMLoC), I’ve participated in its mentorship program and have met many talented and eager ear…
Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 5 December 2023 - Hanging Together
Invisible illness and disability; Latino USA story, The Archivists; Toolkit for Program Challenges; Kellogg Canada's EDI efforts threated by boycott
Postcards from the Gender War: Job Hunting as a Trans Early-Career Librarian
By Ezekiel Amari McGee (Follow us on LinkedIn) For the past year, watching the news often feels like watching a Hitchcock film—you know something awful’s coming, it’s just a matter of when. Wh…
Emotional Intelligence in the Law Library
Although much of my work involves navigating digital information, I try not to forget that libraries are also physical spaces. Indeed, my lifelong love of libraries as places and structures is a bi…
Three Takeaways From a Disabled Person Attending the AALL Conference
Guest Post by Mari Cheney, Associate Director of Research and InstructionBoley Law Library, Lewis & Clark Law School I had the immense honor of attending this year’s annual meeting in Boston us…
Conferencing While Marginalized
By Marlena Okechukwu (Follow us on LinkedIn) Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash Conferences are big business. In fact, globally, the Meetings industry generates trillions of dollars annually – …
What It’s Like to Attend a Conference as a Hard-of-Hearing Individual – AALL Legal Innovation & Technology SIS
ASIL 2023 Annual Meeting Recap: Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones: Multidisciplinary Approaches
By Charles Bjork This year’s annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C., concluded with a special panel discussion on Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Z…
How LIS Upholds White Supremacy (And What To Do About It) — Sofia Leung
This is text of the closing keynote I gave for the CORE Forum on November 20, 2020.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Unanimously Passes Resolution in Support of Digital Rights For Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs
In a stunning show of support for libraries, late yesterday afternoon the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to support a resolution backing the Internet Archive and the digital rights of all libraries. Supervisor Connie Chan, whose district includes the Internet Archive, authored the legislation and brought the resolution before the Board. “At a […]
Inclusive subject headings: Reducing harm in library discovery
Learn more about this WorldCat Discovery feature, the research and community input informing this work, and building toward a community of practice.
Assessing the Racial Diversity of Librarians - Ithaka S+R
How racially diverse is the librarian profession, and how can we begin to assess that diversity? Those are the two key questions at the heart of two
How to be a librarian (or succeed in self-directed work) when you have ADHD: Part 2
By Mikayla Redden (Follow us on LinkedIn) If you read my last post, you might remember the trampoline full of tennis balls metaphor I provided as an example of how living with a neurodivergent…
DEI and De-Credentialization: Why Dropping Degree Requirements Won’t Make Academic Law Librarianship More Diverse But Will Make It More Inequitable
Guest Post by Anonymous In the last year, there has been much talk of de-credentialing (dropping degree requirements from) academic law librarian positions. While possibly driven by the shortage of…
A Woman of Color Reflects on the DEI and De-Credentialization Debate
Guest Post by Trezlen Drake, Head of Digital Resources, and Foreign & International Law Research Librarian at Yale Lillian Goldman Law Library As a woman of color from a financially disadvantag…
Embracing Diversity With a Growth Mindset | INSEAD Knowledge
Getting along with others is about more than just having things in common.
Considering the MLS - David James Hudson
The following text was written by Baharak Yousefi, Ebony Magnus, Yoonhee Lee, and me. It was originally sent as a response to a list-serv discussion…
Listening: An Essential Social Justice Practice
Written by Amy Bintliff
Empower, Provide, Engage | American Libraries Magazine
Recent years have seen a resurgence in widespread activism throughout the country. Librarian's Library columnist Allison Escoto suggests helpful resources for librarians seeking to understand—in both theory and practice—the role of libraries in a time of increased social activism.
Hateful Conduct in Libraries: Supporting Library Workers and Patrons
Home | Proactive Preparation | Responding to an Incident | Meeting Community Needs | Special Considerations & Resources What prompted the need for this document? | Assistance and Consultation | Definitions What prompted the need for this document? After the 2016 elections, there was a spike in reported hate crimes in American libraries. Consequently, questions about hate speech, the First Amendment, and patron behavior in the library are escalating.Hateful Conduct in Libraries: Supporting Library Workers and Patrons