Slides and Notes

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Links from Talk

• The FBI has not Been Here signs
• Librarian of Progress campaign
• YouTube is not a library
• We Need Diverse Books
• UH Chancellor's 2017 Holiday Greeting
• 'Onipa'a Kãkou the anniversary of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy
• A Brief Biography of Paulo Freire & Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• This weeks' drop-in time tweets
• RAINN statistics and how they got them
• Boston Public Library by the numbers
• Children's Library Discovery Center Queens Library
• Wikipedia article on Jewel Mazique & LOC images
• Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care' by Arwa Mahdawi
• Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves by Fobazi Ettarh (and another great article on self-care)
• Non-racist vs. anti-racist by Marlon James

Engagement Toolkit

Class Reading

• Expect More by David Lankes

Professionalism

• Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves
• The Radical Syllabus: A Participatory Approach to Bibliographic Instruction
• Art is Information, Part I: Exploring the research methodologies of artists in Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' #libeyrianship
• Letter to The Smarter Library: A Vision from the Front Page of Wikipedia

Culture & Inclusion

• This column will change your life Are you an Asker or a Guesser?
• Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List
• Ditch Holiday Programming - from School Library Journal
• Holiday Celebrations in the Spirit of Inclusion - from Society for Human Resources Management
• Analyzing the School Holiday Calendar - a student engagement lesson from Teaching Tolerance
• ALA's Banned Books poster, that one year
• ALA's list of Celebration Weeks and Promotions, including Library Card Sign-up Month

Equity & Justice

• "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators" -- an introductory and foundational short essay on the idea of privilege (you might also enjoy Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is by author John Scalzi)
• The meaning of digital readiness - by Pew Research Center explaining that people don't just need tech skills, they need tech empowerment/readiness which is based on trust, which is a little more complex to give someone than just "mouse skills"
• Not all information wants to be free by Tara Robertson, about ethical considerations surrounding digitization.
• Social Justice Terminology

Engagement

• How a Boston nonprofit newsroom starts its listening by popping up where people live and play
• Using librarianship to create a more equitable internet: LGBTQ+ advocacy as a wiki-librarian
• Putting the public into public media membership
• I'm not a community manager I'm a tummler
• Why Wasn't I Consulted? The web as a customer service medium by Paul Ford
• How to throw a Comic Con at your library

Neutrality

• Are libraries neutral? by James LaRue head of ALA 's office for Intellectual Freedom
• Debating my/our humanity, or Are Libraries Neutral? by Chris Bourg, head of MIT Libraries
• Are libraries neutral? by Emily Drabinksi, Associate Professor, Coordinator of Library Instruction Long Island University, Brooklyn
• My Remarks on Net Neutrality - David Lankes
• ALA members to discuss controversial film 'The Speaker' at Annual Conference (watch the movie here)
• Toronto Public Library does not cancel neo-Nazi gathering, then changes policies.

Design - Access and UX

• Usability.gov
• User Experience Design by Peter Morville
• US Web Design System - page templates
• PLAIN Language community
• Designing for Equity
• Web Fundamentals: Accessibility
• Dark Patterns

Design - Infographics

• PowerPoint is Evil by Edward Tufte
• Learning to Love PowerPoint by David Byrne and Wired staff
• Slide deck on how to create infographics (with resource list)

Credits

• Background generated by sprinkle generator
• Coral image from Internet Archive
• Religious book image from Alabama public library by me on Flickr
• Animal images from The happy day by Ruth Krauss
• Nehru Jacket Guide
• Dharma Wheel by Alec Dhuse on Noun Project
• Overworked by Luis Prado on Noun Project
• Delete Nazi by corpus delecti on Noun Project
• Wonder Woman by Éléonore Sabaté on Noun Project
• Fist by Elizabeth Fuqua on Noun Project
• vanity by Stephen Plaster on Noun Project