{"id":16306,"date":"2017-08-03T00:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T04:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T15:47:17","slug":"intellectual-freedom-equity-diversity-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/intellectual-freedom-equity-diversity-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Freedom and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is summer, and my libraries have been slinging lunches along with fun. We\u2019ve been doing it for years, and it\u2019s been hard for me to describe exactly <\/span>why<\/span><\/i> serving lunch in the library feels so right; until I read Mack Freedman\u2019s post on <\/span>Libraries and Summer Food Programs<\/span><\/a> at ALA\u2019s Office for Intellectual Freedom blog this May. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It had never occurred to me to look at food service through an Intellectual Freedom lens, but he points out accurately that these programs \u201c<\/span>enable a level of access to the library\u2019s services that would otherwise be unavailable due to the effects that hunger can have on learning and involvement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So I was glad to see ALA Council adopt <\/span>Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Interpretations to the Library Bill of Rights<\/span><\/a> at Annual conference. \u00a0It provides a framework for exploring why we provide the services we do in the way we do, how we might change them to better achieve equity, diversity, and inclusion for our communities, \u00a0and why this is at the end of the day an Intellectual Freedom issue. \u00a0\u00a0Some children have more of an opportunity than others to learn, to engage, to imagine. \u00a0It is as simple and cruel as that. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What approaches can we customize for children who are marginalized from the opportunity structures in our communities? \u00a0\u00a0Free lunch is just one approach, but squarely within our role in upholding the intellectual freedom of our communities. \u00a0So are video storytime visitations for children whose parents are incarcerated. \u00a0Yet these kinds of programs remain \u201cnon-traditional,\u201d and aren\u2019t always recognized as core library services, central to our principles. <\/span><\/p>\n

What would it look like to center our work in constantly examining structures of exclusion, including those we inhabit and hold up ourselves? \u00a0I think it looks like what we should have been doing all along; I\u2019m glad for the EDI interpretations to give us that lens. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is summer, and my libraries have been slinging lunches along with fun. We\u2019ve been doing it for years, and it\u2019s been hard for me to describe exactly why serving lunch in the library feels so right; until I read Mack Freedman\u2019s post on Libraries and Summer Food Programs at ALA\u2019s Office for Intellectual Freedom blog this May. \u00a0 It had never occurred to me to look at food service through an Intellectual Freedom lens, but he points out accurately that these programs \u201cenable a level of access to the library\u2019s services that would otherwise be unavailable due to the effects that hunger can have on learning and involvement.\u201d So I was glad to see ALA Council adopt Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Interpretations to the Library Bill of Rights at Annual conference. \u00a0It provides a framework for exploring why we provide the services we do in the way we do,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[239,41],"tags":[333,985,986],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-nina-lindsay","category-intellectual-freedom","tag-diversity-2","tag-equity","tag-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}