Black Lives Matter – OPEN SHELF

Not too fine a point: COVID-19 reveals the origins of public libraries as agents of social control

In Library Land, the pandemic has exposed inherent fragilities including discriminatory class and race based practices. In turn, these praxis reveal that public libraries have a history of being agents of social control and exclusion.

Open for All?

Theory in practice III: Moving from systemic racism to anti-racism in Ontario public libraries

In this final installment of her series on anti-racism, Amber Matthews argues that library staff must recognize libraries as racialized spaces in order to construct equitable social structures.

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Black Lives Matter: Does silence signal complacence in public libraries?

I have been waiting for a statement from my local library on the recent protests aimed at confronting systemic anti-black racism in our North American society and across the Western world. It has been weeks and I am still waiting.

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OCULA Council: Statement & actions against anti-Black racism

Your Council stands against anti-Black racism and commits to helping eradicate it from Canadian academic libraries.

InsideOCULA

On the Edge YA: Activism

With the world’s political state in a somewhat frenzy, it is important that we who work in libraries help individuals understand issues that surround…

On the Edge: YA Fiction