{"id":16521,"date":"2017-09-13T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=16521"},"modified":"2017-09-12T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:45:10","slug":"social-justice-practice-youth-librarianship-alsc-archived-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/social-justice-practice-youth-librarianship-alsc-archived-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Practice in Youth Librarianship – #ALSCForum Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 14th<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0ALSC held a community forum on Social Justice Practice in Youth Librarianship. The forum was perfect in that it discussed a crucial topic in librarianship that touches on all of our objectives from our 2017-2020 Strategic Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diversity, Inclusion and Advocacy<\/h2>\n

Dr. Nicole A. Cooke,\u00a0an Assistant Professor and MS\/LIS Program Director at the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, talked about her courses and teachings on how to have \u201chard conversations\u201d on race, diversity, and social justice. She explains that she helps prepare her students to be culturally competent and \u201cbe comfortable with the idea of being uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

She presented us with, Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race<\/em> by Derald Wing Sue, as a guide on how to have these conversations about race and that if we remain silent, we \u201callow the conversation to happen without us.\u201d<\/p>\n

It made me think about our advocacy efforts: how we speak up for those who feel they cannot speak up for themselves and how we establish the trust to do so.<\/p>\n

Nicole amazingly broke down the Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts and how we need to use precise language and avoid<\/em> avoiding the words \u201cracism\u201d and \u201coppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learning and Development<\/h2>\n

Jessica Anne Bratt, Youth Services Manager for the Grand Rapids Public Library and co-founder of Libraries4BlackLives, discussed modeling race talks in storytime. She passionately explained that storytime is about teaching \u201clove\u201d and it\u2019s about teaching a love of literacy and inclusion. Personally, I thought it was beautiful that she related storytime to Nelson Mandela\u2019s \u201cNo one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin\u2026\u201d quote.<\/p>\n

She explained that children go on to make their own assumptions and biases when they aren\u2019t spoken to about race, and that \u201cbeing different is ok\u201d and normal. This cycle of biases<\/em> leads to a cycle of hurt<\/em>. \u00a0She offered this google doc of resources<\/a> on how to disrupt these cycles.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/h3>\n

So many resources were shared by Nicole, Jessica, and attendees in our chat box. If you are a member of ALSC and were not able to attend, we hope that you\u2019ve watched the archived forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If you are not a member of ALSC, we hope you will consider joining<\/a> to not miss out on future learning and development opportunities! We also compiled some of the resources that were presented during the forum on our professional tools page<\/a>. You may also check out the #alscforum hashtag on Twitter where our amazingly engaged members shared some of their thoughts and more resources.<\/p>\n

Aligning with our strategic plan, we hope to increasingly offer more resources on advocacy, inclusiveness, and diversity. Consider saving the date<\/strong> for this upcoming 2-part webinar<\/strong> series: Nurturing Empathy through Culturally-Inclusive Youth Programming<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our librarians, teachers, and caregivers have such an important role in having\/facilitating these \u201chard conversations\u201d and they play an important role in demonstrating that \u201cbeing different is ok.\u201d<\/p>\n

We hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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