Social Justice and Activism in Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Justice and Activism in Libraries write by Su Epstein. This book was released on 2019-04-11. Social Justice and Activism in Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library's role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated. Librarians must serve as community leaders with a mission to educate and inform, ready to model the principles they support. The question for many is: how? Experienced librarians offer ideas and guidance in seeking new creative paths, working to support change in library organizations and reexamining principles that may be taken for granted. Theoretical foundations are discussed, along with practical ideas such as the creation a book groups for the intellectually disabled and partnership with social workers or advocates for employees with disabilities.
Activism and the School Librarian
Activism and the School Librarian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activism and the School Librarian write by Deborah D. Levitov. This book was released on 2012-06-12. Activism and the School Librarian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides practical strategies and step-by-step plans for developing advocacy initiatives for school libraries. School libraries provide an essential service to the community, but without proper funding few libraries stand a chance to maintain the resources they offer—or to survive at all. School librarians can play an instrumental role in the survival of their programs. This how-to book provides school librarians with effective advocacy and activism strategies for promoting and improving their library programs. Activism and the School Librarian: Tools for Advocacy and Survival offers straightforward, practical approaches for creating advocacy programs. This guidebook examines the characteristics for becoming an advocate, explores the meaning of advocacy/activism as an effort that is ongoing and proactive, and provides the steps required for initiating a successful program. The contributors address the various types of advocacy and activism, including legislative advocacy at the local, state, and national levels; school and district level programs; and community-based initiatives. The book includes expert advice from successful advocates and provides helpful reproducible tools.
Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries
Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries write by Shannon D. Jones. This book was released on 2019-07-24. Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The news and scholarly literature are replete with stories and articles describing the challenges that diverse individuals face in their local communities and workplaces. Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success is arranged in three parts: Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter, Equipping the Library Staff, and Voices from the Field. This book tackles these issues head on and should appeal to a broad audience interested in diversity as it relates to libraries and librarianship, including professional librarians and paraprofessional library staff. Offering best practices strategies tempered by experiences and wisdom, this book will help libraries realize a high level of inclusion.
Friendship as Social Justice Activism
Friendship as Social Justice Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendship as Social Justice Activism write by Niharika Banerjea. This book was released on 2018. Friendship as Social Justice Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the globe and are all involved in diverse movements, including LGBTQ rights, intimate-partner violence, addiction recovery, housing, migrant, labor, and environmental activism. Each essay narrates how living and organizing within friendship circles offers new ways of dreaming and struggling for social justice. Recent scholarship in different disciplinary fields as well as activist literature have brought attention to the political possibilities within friendship. The essays, memoirs, poems, and artwork in Friendship as Social Justice Activism address these political possibilities within the context of gender, sexuality, and economic justice movements.
Social Justice and Library Work
Social Justice and Library Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Justice and Library Work write by Stephen Bales. This book was released on 2017-10-18. Social Justice and Library Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization. The modern spirit of social and cultural critique, however, has focused our attention on the concrete, material relationships that determine human potentiality and opportunity, and library workers are increasingly seeing the institution of the library, as well as library work, as embedded in a web of relations that extends beyond the library’s traditional sphere of influence. In light of this critical consciousness, more and more library and information science professionals are coming to see themselves as change agents and front-line advocates of social justice issues. This book will serve as a guide for those library workers and related information professionals that disregard traditional ideas of "library neutrality" and static, idealized conceptions of Western culture. The book will work as an entry point for those just forming a consciousness oriented towards social justice work and will be also be of value to more experienced "transformative library workers" as an up-to-date supplement to their praxis. Justifies the use of a variety of theoretical and practical resources for effecting positive change Explores the role of the librarian as change agents
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