CRT in LIBRARIES: CASE STUDIES - March 4th, 2022 | 1pm - 2:30pm
METRO's Reference & Instruction Special Interest Group (SIG) were grateful to receive a wealth of viable applications. Thank you to everyone who applied! We are happy to announce the selected Case Studies Presentations:
2022 Case Studies Presenters
Dewhitening Librarianship: A Policy Proposal for Libraries
April Hathcock - Director of Scholarly Communication & Information Policy, NYU
Dr. Isabel Espinal - Librarian for African Studies, Afro American Studies, Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass-Amherst
Maria Rios - Humanities Research Services Librarian, UMass-Amherst
A Materialist Approach to Understanding Information and Society
Betsy Yoon - Assistant Professor & Public and International Affairs Library Liaison, CUNY, Baruch College
Beautiful Imposition: An Instructor's Toolkit to Cultivate Critical, Creative and Independent Thinking
kynita stringer-stanback - Information Activist/Research Designer/Storyteller
Case Studies will follow the Primer in Critical Race Theories in Libraries provided by Dr. Shaundra Walker!
Dr. Shaundra Walker serves as Library Director at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. She is also a tenured Associate Professor of Library Science. Her most recent book chapter, "Ann Allen Shockley: An Activist Librarian for Black Special Collections," appears in Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (MIT Press, 2021). She is co-editor of The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
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Critical Race Theory (CRT) stems from legal studies and aims to expose, critically analyze and, ultimately, eliminate systemic racism. In librarianship, applied CRT investigates our practices with a goal of dismantling white supremacy and the many ways it manifests in libraries, from our architectures, our collection development, to our teaching and learning practices.
We'd like to think together about how critical race theory informs our pedagogy and our practice.
We invite you to consider how we can integrate criticalities of race to our approaches to teaching and/or reference practice. How are we reifying power structures of racial inequity in library services, school, and staffing models? How do we continue to support ourselves, faculty, students, patrons, and the public? What do we need to keep doing? Start? Stop?
This METRO Reference & Instruction SIG kickoff event will be held March 4th, 2022 at 1pm. Let's build a collective discourse that will support practitioners from various institutional contexts and who come to this venture with varying levels of expertise!
Past events
Spring 2021 Critical Pedagogy Symposium - https://mnylc.org/cps/
Spring 2021 Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy (YouTube Video)
Fall 2020 Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy (YouTube Video)
The Reference and Instruction Special Interest Group co-leaders are: Kate (Liam) Adler, Director of Library Services, MCNY, Linda Miles, Head of Reference and OER Librarian, Hostos Community College, & Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Engagement, NYU. This event is co-sponsored with the NYU Division of Libraries and ACRL/NY.
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Linda Miles
Assistant Professor - Librarian
Hostos Community College
lmiles.librarian@gmail.com------------------------------