Each Month, the ILA Committee for Diversity & Inclusion shares resources out on issues relating to diversity and inclusion. Here is another of our emails with items that may be of interest or value to those seeking to learn more about diversity, inclusion, and social justice. While we know we can’t be comprehensive, we do our best to collect timely resources on library-related issues and share those every few weeks. This month we have included a Special Topic section focusing on the conversations surrounding the ALA Library Bill of Rights Meeting Room Interpretation. We have also included a section with other topics below that. If you have resources that fall under the diversity and inclusion umbrella you feel might be helpful or interesting for the ILA membership, please send them my way and I will work with the committee to share them out as appropriate.
Sincerely,
Cara B. Stone
Chair, Committee for Diversity & Inclusion
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Special Topic: ALA Library Bill of Rights Meeting Room Interpretation
ALA Council special online vote to take place Aug. 9 re: whether or not to rescind new Meeting Room Interpretation- Follow the conversation on the ALA Council Meeting Room Discussion Board: https://tinyurl.com/Meeting-Room-Discussion (should be public)
Discussion of this resolution will now proceed in this ALA Connect space from Thursday, July 26 through Thursday, August 9.
On Thursday, August 9, discussion will close and the poll will open. ALA Council will then proceed to an electronic ballot and vote on the resolution via Connect poll from August 9 through August 16. The ALA Governance Office staff will provide a link to the poll which will only be open to Councilors. Please note that this is not an anonymous poll as people's names will be associated with their votes the way they are in open Council meetings. The results of the vote will be announced on August 17.
As a reminder, for an on-line vote to be valid, at least 50 percent of Councilors must participate. According to the ALA By-laws, approval of the resolution in an electronic vote requires a 75 percent majority of those voting Yes or No.
The resolution is attached here for reference.
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JoAnne Kempf
Dir/Office of ALA Governance
American Library Association”
This is the version Council approved at Annual 2018, which is currently in effect, and which the motion at hand would rescind: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/meetingrooms
If the current motion passes, we would revert to the 1991 version, which was in effect until Annual 2018: https://alair.ala.org/handle/11213/1622
Then the IFC working group would draft their new revision and share it by 2018-10-01, which presumably Council will vote on at Midwinter after further revisions.
- CritLib Responding to ALA http://critlib.org/responding-to-ala-chat/ (Good background information of #NoHateALA timeline and includes suggested resources).
- Follow the conversation online on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoHateALA?src=hash
- Libraries Respond: Hate Crimes and Libraries http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/EDI
- Hate Groups and Violence in Libraries http://www.ala.org/advocacy/hate-groups-and-violence-libraries
- Hate Speech and Hate Crime from ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/hate
- Library Meeting Rooms for All https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=14997
- To ensure that everyone has a voice during the library meeting room discussions, the Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) Meeting Rooms Working Group has created a form and invited the library community to provide suggested wording on the current Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights meeting rooms language. Please note that all suggestions are due by August 24 and a final draft will be presented to the ALA Council by October 1. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXbV5avGgusW9S8pf3CoqiDvdLHVGg4IcYMfmulaGSuabk6w/viewform
Other topics:
- Books on Borders | Collection Development https://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2018/07/collection-development/books-on-borders/
- Linguistic Diversity in Libraries | BackTalk https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2018/07/opinion/backtalk/linguistic-diversity-in-libraries-backtalk/
- Institutional Neutrality Isn’t Reality: Libraries and higher ed must acknowledge that some expression oppresses others https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/05/01/institutional-neutrality-isnt-reality/
- Twitter chats to consider following (thanks for the suggestions, Chelsea Sims):
- From Chelsea: Both regularly have great conversations and resources for thinking outside of the white canon, especially in K-20 environment.
- #DisruptTexts https://twitter.com/hashtag/DisruptTexts?src=hash
- #EduColor https://twitter.com/hashtag/EduColor?src=hash
- #ClearTheAir https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClearTheAir?src=hash: From Chelsea: an online book club centered on issues of race/diversity, sometimes focused on education but not always. The first new round starts soon and you don’t have to have read the books to participate in the discussion or you can always just read it later.
- A Source for Native American Lit: Visit the American Indians in Children’s Lit blog https://elabraveandtrue.com/2018/07/12/sources-for-native-american-literature/ (Thanks to Christine Sturgeon for sharing!)
- Punishing Laura Ingalls Wilder Write inclusively… or else https://medium.com/@marilyn_yung/punishing-laura-ingalls-wilder-55ad3024d3b4 (Thanks to Christine Sturgeon for sharing!)
- Renaming the Laura Ingalls Wilder award isn't disturbing, William Shatner – it's necessary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/10/renaming-the-laura-ingalls-wilder-award-isnt-disturbing-william-shatner-its-necessary (Thanks to Christine Sturgeon for sharing!)
- ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Serivces Travel Grants to National Joint Conference of Librarians of Color http://www.ala.org/advocacy/odlos-travel-grants-jclc (Deadline Aug. 18)
- Archiving While Black https://www.chronicle.com/article/Archiving-While-Black/243981/#.W1Yi4B3EW6g.twitter
- Southern Utah library workers told to remove buttons, displays featuring LGBTQ-themed materials https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/2018/07/25/hurricane-library-workers-removal-lgbtq-displays-discrimination/820469002/
- The State Library is officially unveiling a new resource to answer common questions on library law topics in Iowa, including the above and many more. Library Law FAQs is a trove of 75 questions and answers divided into categories of topics ranging from finance to human resources to copyright and beyond. https://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/k-p/legal
- DMACC is hosting Author Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) at HyVee Hall on Friday, Nov. 2 at 1:30 PM. The event is free and open to the public (plenty of seating). She will present for 30 min and a Q&A for 20-30 min. She is coming as part of DMACC’s One Book One College One Community program: https://libguides.dmacc.edu/onebook201819 Questions may be directed to Rebecca Funke rsfunke[@]dmacc.edu
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