Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Learn more about Mariame and her work: https://2022lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu/keynote-speaker/

Save the date for the conference and look for a full schedule next week. Registration will open on April 18th. 

LACUNY Institute 2022 : "Built to Exclude: Confronting Issues of Equity and Otherness in Libraries."

Library workers, patrons, and scholars are grappling with questions about what it means to have access, to belong, and to feel welcome and included. How do library environments and institutional norms–from the ways spaces are designed and collections are organized, to the language we use in classrooms and on digital platforms–potentially exclude historically marginalized populations or alienate patrons and workers with different cultural and racial, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds? How do conceptions of professionalism and issues of privilege, class, and power impact the experiences of library workers or present barriers to entry into our field? How can we confront encoded forms of discrimination that library workers and patrons face? Is it possible to transform institutional dynamics that are othering when we face bureaucratic obstacles, labor shortages, and austerity conditions? Who has the agency and resources to change library environments that are built to exclude?

Learn more about the Library Association of CUNY and past LACUNY Institutes: https://lacuny.org/LACUNY-Institute  

Best,

Nora Almeida and Wanett Clyde, Co-Chairs

2022 LACUNY Institute Planning Committee

https://2022lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Planning Committee