Social Justice Roles for Libraries and Librarians
Bridging the Divide & Speaking Truth to Power
librarian.net/talks/rila17
June 1, 2017
Slides: Keynote, PDF with notes, PowerPoint
general links
- How to help someone use a computer by Phil Agre
- CBC's Murdoch Mysteries & their Wikipedia page
- Tech companies band together to help refugees
- ALA SRRT newsletter archive
- Draft horses bring fiber optics to remote locations from VT Digger
- Google, democracy and the truth about internet search from The Guardian
- The Miseducation of Dylann Roof by Southern Poverty Law Center
#critlib resources
- Critlib website
- Follow #critlib on Twitter
- Freire's Pedagogy of Oppressed
- bell hooks on education from the encyclopedia of informal education
- Wikipedia on Praxis
- The Professional is the Political by John Overholt
tactics for action
- India's Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words & The women scientists who took India into space
- In All-Gender Restrooms, the Signs Reflect the Times Gender Identity and the Bathroom Debate: What We're Doing - a Libguide
- What is Normal? Teen Body Image, Nutrition and Physical Activity from Oregon Dairy Council
- SPLC - Report Hate
- ProPublica - Report Hate Crimes & Tell Your Story
- ALA - Report Challenges
- CATO - Report Police Misconduct
- Diversity makes us smarter
- Photo speaks volumes about Obama and race in the Washington Post
- Anil Dash: The Year I Didn't Retweet Men
- Harvard Implicit Biases Tests
- Unmasking 'racial micro aggressions' from Monitor on Psychology
- GLAAD Media Reference Guide on transgender terminology & Conscious Style Guide
- Beyoncé's Lemonade and Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' and Information Resources LibGuide by Jenny Ferretti
- LibrariesResist Twitter and Resource Guide
- British Library Public Domain images
- Superhero coloring pages
- Wikipedia's 1Lib1Ref project & handout
- Jewel Mazique tweet and article
image credits
- Background image from Flickr
- Banksyesque librarian image by Rebecca McCorkindale
- Microaggression image from Turner Consulting Group