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- About the authors
The critical work of being more inclusive and anti-racist in academic library teaching, collections, and community is even more important in today’s social and political climate. Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color explores the various methods used by librarians, archivists, and library workers to increase or enhance engagement with and use of library spaces, resources, services, and materials by students of color.
Six themed sections provide an opportunity to further engage with issues affecting students of color and to take action to provide more just and equitable teaching and learning environments.
- Welcoming and Sense of Belonging
- Culturally Relevant Practices
- Building Representation and Inclusion
- Collaborations and Co-Creation
- Community Building and Engagement
- Fostering Diverse Student Employees
The resources, strategies, and approaches in Creating an Inclusive Library can help all library workers engage with this vital work and build a community of support. As the nature of diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism work in higher education and academic libraries continues to evolve, it is ever more critical to continue this work, to be allies for those engaged in it, and to share how you are creating more inclusive and anti-racist spaces, materials, and services at your library.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ngoc-Yen Tran, Michael J. Aguilar II, and Adriana Poo
Section I: Welcoming and Sense of Belonging
Chapter 1. Moving Toward Belonging: Library Integration in a Summer Bridge Program
Becky Leathersich, Alessandra Otero Ramos, Alan Witt, and Brandon K. West
Chapter 2. Beyond the Filter: Using Photographs and Storytelling to Build Community for AALANA Student Retention
Mary Jo Fairchild, Aaisha Haykal, Allison Jones, Amanda Kraft, Elena Rodriguez, Dale Rosengarten, and Gretchen Scronce
Chapter 3. Making the Invisible Visible: Library Outreach and Engagement at the Intersections
Jade Alburo, Renee Romero, and Ibraheem Ali
Chapter 4. The Black Student Experience at California State University San Marcos and the University Library’s Role in Amplifying Black Voices
Jennifer Ho, Rosa Y. Rodriguez, Sean D. Visintainer, Antonia P. Olivas, and Holly Hampton
Section II: Culturally Relevant Approaches
Chapter 5. Doing Things with Metaphors: Mobilizing Cultural Humility from the Guest Perspective as Antiracist Pedagogy
Carol A. Leibiger and Alan W. Aldrich
Chapter 6. Walk It Like We Talk It: Library Programming for Black Student Engagement
Angel Truesdale, Adreonna Bennett, Randi Beem, Christin Lampkowski, Natalie Ornat, and Oliva Patterson
Chapter 7. Taking It to the Street: Designing Archival Walking Tours for Cultural Heritage Months
Catherine Fonseca
Section III: Building Representation and Inclusion
Chapter 8. Creating a More Inclusive Environment: The Importance of Mindful Collection Development and Cataloging
Kelly Williams and Jennifer Batson
Chapter 9. Facilitate Then Curate: Highlighting Student & BIPOC Voices in the Library Collection with the Reading Resilience Project
Kelly Marie Blanchat
Chapter 10. Student Outreach as BIPOC Collection Development: The Creation of a Native Hawaiian Collection in an Academic Library
Shelley Carr
Section IV: Collaborations and Co-Creation
Chapter 11. Demonstrating Inclusion and Allyship: Amplifying an Indigenous Voice Through Physical and Digital Exhibition
Jaime Valenzuela
Chapter 12. Co-Creativity for Inclusivity: Designing the Library User Experience
Michael J. Aguilar II and Sharesly Rodriguez
Chapter 13. Zines as Praxis: Making Space for Participatory Culture in the Academic Library
Jerilyn Tinio and Melissa Chomintra
Chapter 14. Building BIPOC Community with Wikipedia
Rosalinda Hernandez Linares-Gray and Leah Valletta
Section V: Community Building and Engagement
Chapter 15. We Need to Talk: Creating a University Library-Driven Series on the UNLV Campus to Address Systemic Racism
Brittani Sterling and Su Kim Chung
Chapter 16. A Tale of Two Ethnic Studies Libraries: A Community-Driven Model for BIPOC Inclusion
Xaviera Flores and Joy Holland
Chapter 17. Building an Inclusive and Antiracist Library: East Asian Library Initiatives at the University of Toronto
Hana Kim
Chapter 18. Centering Comunidad in the Central Valley
Ginny Barnes, Karina Cardenas, and Balladolid (Dolly) Lopez
Section VI: Fostering Diverse Student Employees
Chapter 19. Reimagining and Reflecting on Efforts to Build an Inclusive Library with BIPOC Students
Kate Pham and Daisy Muralles
Chapter 20. Cultivating and Supporting BIPOC Student Success via the Peer Information Consulting Program
Jesus Espinoza and Alexandra Rivera
Chapter 21. Diversity in Libraries IT: A Cohort Case Study of an Internship Program
Daniel M. Coughlin and Binky Lush
About the Editors and Authors