June's monthly informative email from the APLA Continuing Education Interest Group is courtesy of group member Lindsey MacCallum (NS). Focusing on the topic of anti-racism work in libraries, archives, and information science, she recommends the following short reading list:

Espinal, I., Sutherland, T., & Roh, C. (2018). A holistic approach for inclusive librarianship: Decentering whiteness in our profession. Library Trends 67(1), 147-162. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/706993/pdf

Gohr, M. (2017). Ethnic and racial diversity in libraries: How white allies can support arguments for decolonization. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 3, 42–58. Retrieved from https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/5

Jules, B. (2016). Confronting our failure of care around the legacies of marginalized people in the archives. Medium. Retrieved from https://medium.com/on-archivy/confronting-our-failure-of-care-around-the-legacies-of-marginalized-people-in-the-archives-dc4180397280

Kendrick, K. (2019, Feb. 13). Tweet-dux: White supremacy and racism in the PoC low-morale experience. Renewals. Retrieved from https://renewerslis.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/tweet-dux-white-supremacy-and-racism-in-the-poc-low-morale-experience/

Noble, S. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York: New York University Press.

Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (2017). Topographies of whiteness : Mapping whiteness in Library and Information Science. (Series on Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS Ser). Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, LLC.

For more resources, please see Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship: A Reading List by Karla J. Strand.

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Lindsey MacCallum (she/her)

Archives and Scholarly Communications Librarian

Liaison Librarian to the Humanities

Mount Saint Vincent University Library

166 Bedford Highway, Halifax NS B3M 2J6

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Website: http://www.msvu.ca/library

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The Mount Library & Archives are situated in K'jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral, unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.

Cate Carlyle

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VP Nova Scotia, Continuing Education IG Convenor

Atlantic Provinces Library Association

CRC Coordinator, Mount Saint Vincent University

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