To Speak of Racism and Brutality

By Natisha Harper, Chair of the Diversity Committee, and Shari Byrd To speak of racism and brutality, we must understand that anti-racist commitments necessitate strategies as evolving and exhausting as racist ones. The belief that the Civil Rights movement began in the 1950s and not on the ships that sailed kidnapped Africans to a horrendous …

Decolonizing SAM: Promoting Equity through Classification in Libraries

Guest post by Victoria Contreraz Victoria Contreraz is a second year graduate student in the University of Washington’s Information School (MLIS, 2019). Working with library staff and utilizing Seattle Art Museum’s Equity Team as a sounding board, Contreraz created a plan to decolonize SAM’s Dorothy Stimson Bullitt Library. This began by identifying issues of colonial …

ARLIS/NA Diversity Forum Panelist: Evan Schilling

The 2019 ARLIS/NA Diversity Forum in Salt Lake City is almost here! We'll be introducing our Forum panelists in the weeks leading up to the annual conference, as well as sharing some of their recommended readings. This week we'd like to introduce you to our last, but certainly not least, Diversity Forum facilitator, Evan Schilling: Hi, …

ARLIS/NA 2019 Diversity Forum Panelist: Simone Fujita

The 2019 ARLIS/NA Diversity Forum in Salt Lake City is almost here! We'll be introducing our Forum panelists in the weeks leading up to the annual conference, as well as sharing some of their recommended readings. This week we'd like to introduce you to Simone Fujita: Greetings! I’m Simone Fujita, Liaison Librarian + Outreach Coordinator at …

ARLIS/NA Diversity Forum Panelist: Jennifer Ferretti

The 2019 ARLIS/NA Diversity Forum in Salt Lake City is almost here! We'll be introducing our Forum panelists in the weeks leading up to the annual conference, as well as sharing some of their recommended readings. This week we'd like to introduce you to Jennifer Ferretti: Hi, I'm Jennifer Ferretti, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Maryland …