Starting next week! Don't miss your chance to learn how to prepare and respond to censorship challenges and how to create a more equitable library culture.
How To Build an Antiracist Library Culture and Censorship and Banned Books: How to Defend Intellectual Freedom | Starting next week! Don't miss your chance to learn how to prepare and respond to censorship challenges and how to create a more equitable library culture. | How To Build an Antiracist Library Culture September 26, October 3 and 10 | Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of implicit bias, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens—to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library. After you attend this course, you’ll be able to: Evaluate your current DEI practices to engage in more authentic self-reflection and self-assessment Use data to assess your organization's progress on antiracism initiatives Use data to center communities and understand their programming and service needs Employ participatory design to build programs and services hand in hand with communities Recognize implicit bias and maintain a commitment to equity and antiracism during conflict Recognize key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality Assess current library programs through a culturally competent, antiracist lens, Recognize problematic stereotypes, tropes, acts of implicit/explicit bias, and microaggressions Who should take this course: Any educator or librarian wanting to help contribute to an antiracist culture in their institution. | Censorship and Banned Books: How to Defend Intellectual Freedom | Library collections must be diverse and inclusive, offering windows into and reflections of the vast array of people, stories and experiences that make up our world. In this course, you’ll learn from an outstanding group of experts as they explore key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting inclusive and equitable collections. You’ll conduct a diversity and inclusion audit of your collections, and hear about ways to include wider perspectives from and about LGBTQIA+ people, Black, indigenous, and people of color, and historically underrepresented ethnicities, cultures, and religions. You’ll learn how to ensure that your collections are more reflective of the diversity of your community and the larger world and how to establish policies for keeping your inclusive collections safe against book challenges. After you attend this interactive online course and workshop, you’ll be able to: Assess current library collections, book promotions, and displays through a diverse lens in order to assess gaps in collections and service areas Understand key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, unconscious bias, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality Recognize common problematic stereotypes, tropes, and microaggressions in media Assess the diversity and inclusiveness of current collection development and RA practices Plan and execute a diversity audit Diversify collections and displays with cultural humility and confidence Assess and revise your collection policies to address censorship Find allies to join you in protecting intellectual freedom Who should take this course: Any educator or librarian wanting to learn how to build and maintain diverse collections. | Our courses are perfect for your team! Group rates available now! Request a discount for groups of 3 or more and work with your colleagues on a project for your library. Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses. | Introducing course credit packages! Buy now, decide later. Plan your library’s professional development for the year by purchasing course credits. Starting at $5,000, purchase packages of course tickets that you can allocate to your staff as needed and apply to our full roster of courses. Contact us to plan your group purchase. | |