How To Build an Antiracist Library Culture

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Online Course
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Program Description

Event Details

 

Tuesdays, Feb. 21, 28 and Mar. 7 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. PST

Transform your library culture and services by learning how to build and maintain momentum toward your equity goals.
 

Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of implicit bias, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens—to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library.

Practical coursework, along with targeted support, will take you from theory to application, providing tools and resources that will help you to transform your library culture and services by examining them through an equity lens. 

You’ll complete assignments over 3+ weeks in an interactive online classroom environment with personal coaching from an expert in the field. In addition, you’ll have access to our foundational bonus content—rich supporting materials you can explore at your own pace, including a series of webinars from Library Journal and School Library Journal contributors, readings, activities, and videos.

The transformational speaker program has given thousands of librarians the tools and vision for meaningful change. The live sessions run on Tuesdays, Feb. 21, 28 and Mar. 7 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 pm PST (recordings available) with an ongoing facilitator-led workshop over 3 weeks. Don’t miss this opportunity!
 

Learning Outcomes

When you attend this interactive online course, you’ll gain the tools to:  

  • Evaluate your current EDI practices to engage in more authentic self-reflection and self-assessment,

  • Recognize key diversity and cultural literacy concepts such as white privilege, unconscious bias, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality,

  • Assess current library programs, staffing, hiring, equity statements, and more through a culturally competent, antiracist lens,

  • Recognize problematic stereotypes, tropes, acts of implicit/explicit bias, and microaggressions,

  • Engage in an  equity-focused project that you initiate, define, and work on in a group workshop with asynchronous, written feedback from a group facilitator

Who should take this course:

Any educator or librarian wanting to help contribute to an antiracist culture in their institution.

 

CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal

 

Additional Information

Enrollment Statement

I understand that a space will be reserved for me in this learning opportunity at a cost to CALL, and if I am unable to attend this learning opportunity, I will cancel my enrollment as soon as possible and before the start date. 

Single Enrollment Disclaimer

I understand that I can register for only one course at a time (no concurrent courses). If I do not attend this course, I understand that I may forfeit the opportunity to enroll in additional CALL courses during this fiscal year.