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1stthurs
1st Thursday – Racism’s influence on the library world
Understanding racism’s influence on Vermont, our libraries, and our library associations. The first step in developing an antiracist agenda is to understand systemic racism’s deep influence on our culture and institutions. In this session, we’ll take an unflinching look at how racism is part of our state and the profession of librarianship, including our associations. […]
1st Thursday — Using critical whiteness to study the experience of race in libraries
Emily Crist, Champlain College. Despite an increasing awareness of the structural racial oppression and inequities within our society and institutions, little research has worked to unpack how library practitioners understand the way race shows up in our spaces, policies, procedures, behaviors, and habits. This session will discuss a qualitative study that used a critical whiteness […]
VLA 1st Thursdays for December
ZoomSustainable Libraries and Resilient Communities Sustainable librarianship might seem like a "nice in theory" kind of idea but much of what we do, especially in our small Vermont libraries, falls under this umbrella. From "reusing" books through library circulation to installing solar panels and so much in between, libraries are the proving ground. Join Mindy […]