We’re still seeking applications for short lightning talks and case studies presentations for March 4th! Submit by Feb 8th. Also, register!
In 2022, METRO’s Reference & Instruction Special Interest Group (SIG) will host a series of events exploring Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the ways in which it can foreground and shape theory and practice within Reference and Pedagogy in LIS. We will launch the series with an event in March, featuring case studies of CRT-informed practice. We will build on this foundation with subsequent discussions, panels, and workshops, culminating in a symposium tentatively scheduled for spring of 2023. This email is a call for short presentations of case studies for the March event.
CRT in LIBRARIES: CASE STUDIES – March 4th, 2022 | 1pm
Attend our kickoff event, register! Use this form
Propose a 10-15 min presentation! Use this form → Deadline Feb 8th
Critical Race Theory (CRT) stems from legal studies and aims to expose, critically analyze and, ultimately, eliminate systemic racism. In librarianship, applied CRT investigates our practices with a goal of dismantling white supremacy and the many ways it manifests in libraries, from our architectures, our collection development, to our teaching and learning practices.
We’d like to think together about how critical race theory informs our pedagogy and our practice.
We invite you to consider how we can integrate criticalities of race to our approaches to teaching and/or reference practice. How are we reifying power structures of racial inequity in library services, school, and staffing models? How do we continue to support ourselves, faculty, students, patrons, and the public? What do we need to keep doing? Start? Stop?
This METRO Reference & Instruction SIG kickoff event will be held March 4th, 2022 at 1pm. Let’s build a collective discourse that will support practitioners from various institutional contexts and who come to this venture with varying levels of expertise!
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Primer in Critical Race Theories in Libraries will be provided by Dr. Shaundra Walker
Dr. Shaundra Walker serves as Library Director at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. She is also a tenured Associate Professor of Library Science. Her most recent book chapter, “Ann Allen Shockley: An Activist Librarian for Black Special Collections,” appears in Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight (MIT Press, 2021). She is co-editor of The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).
Past events
Spring 2021 Critical Pedagogy Symposium – https://mnylc.org/cps/
Spring 2021 Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy (YouTube Video)
Fall 2020 Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy (YouTube Video)
The Reference and Instruction Special Interest Group co-leaders are: Kate Adler, Director of Library Services, MCNY, Linda Miles, Head of Reference and OER Librarian, Hostos Community College, & Shawnta Smith-Cruz, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning, and Engagement, NYU.