Title:
Hopeful visions, practical actions : cultural humility in library work
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
Chicago : ALA Editions, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
xxiii, 236 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780838938300
Abstract:
LIS educators and students, library directors, managers, frontline employees, and those who work behind the scenes all share how they are taking action and creating change. Thoughtfully addressing DEI issues related to policies, services, and programs, this collection's diverse chorus of voices will both enlighten and inspire. Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognizing and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. This collection, the first book-length treatment of this approach in libraries, gathers contributors from across the field to demonstrate how cultural humility can change the way we work and make lasting impacts on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries.
Contents:
Foreword / Mark A. Puente -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. -- Part I. Origins: "Time is a ship that never casts anchor": Indigenous adages in promoting cultural humility / Loriene Roy and Leisa Moorhouse -- Redressing power imbalances in librarianship using cultural humility : a perspective from two Black librarians / Xan Goodman and Twanna Hodge -- Getting past "approachability" : what cultural humility brings to library and information education / Lilliana Montoya and Sarah Polkinghorne. -- Part II. Reflective practice: Reflections on culturally humble practice in bibliography, scholarship, and readers' advisory : a case study / Michael Mungin -- Cultural humility and evaluating books for young readers / Silvia Lin Hanick and Kelsey Keyes -- Learn, act, connect : thriving as an international librarian and global citizen / Meggan Houlihan, Dina Meky, and Amanda Click -- Cultural humility in instruction on health outreach projects : revising a course on the grant-writing process / Jarrod Irwin -- Part III. Community: Embedding Diné culture in individual and institutional cultural humility practices : a view from the tribal college library / Rhiannon Sorrell -- Beyond late fees : eliminating access barriers for everyone / Carrie Valdes -- Small changes make an impact : how access and metadata services teams address cultural humility / Melanie Bopp, Tricia Mackenzie, and Kimberley A. Edwards -- Cultural Humility and Servant Leadership / Mark Emmons. -- Part IV. Hopeful Visions -- Knowing (un)knowings : cultural humility, the other(s), and theories of change / Nicholae Cline and Jorge R. L̤pez-McKnight -- Cultural humility : a journey to radical self-love / Naghem Swade and Daniyom "Dani" Bekele.
Language:
English
