September 2018

Greetings,

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. 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

• OSU changing three building names to promote inclusivity http://www.registerguard.com/news/20180730/osu-changing-three-building-names-to-promote-inclusivity 
• Why Ames police say they can't investigate this racist Wi-Fi address near Iowa State campus https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/readers-watchdog/2018/08/06/iowa-state-university-racism-ames-police-racist-wifi-address/897148002/ 
• Black Girls’ Literacies: Merging Theory and Practice https://www.slj.com/2018/03/teens-ya/black-girl-literacies-merging-theory-practice/ 
• Transforming workplace culture with Micro-affirmations http://mitsloan.mit.edu/fellows/leadership-blog/transforming-workplace-culture-with-micro-affirmations/ 
• Iowans Return to Freedom Summer https://www.keepinghistoryalivefoundation.org/projects Full documentary online: http://www.iptv.org/video/story/2392/iowans-return-freedom-summer 
• Improving Outcomes for Children with Disabilities in Libraries http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2018/03/improving-outcomes-children-disabilities-libraries/ 
• Behind the Scenes: Filming BC SRC welcome video in American Sign Language http://kidssrc.libraries.coop/blog/2018/03/14/behind-the-scenes-filming-bc-src-welcome-video-in-american-sign-language/ and the final video product they describe in the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=91&v=zl0npv1bHiA 
• Reading While White http://readingwhilewhite.blogspot.com/ (Thanks to Kyrstin Shelley for sharing) 
• Disability in Kid Lit http://disabilityinkidlit.com/ 
• Reading & Reviewing Diverse YA Books http://richincolor.com/ 
• Kirkus Reviews and the Plight of the “Problematic” Book Review https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/kirkus-reviews-plight-of-the-problematic-book-review (Thanks to Kyrstin Shelley for sharing) 
• 10 Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You https://www.bustle.com/p/10-books-about-race-to-read-instead-of-asking-a-person-of-color-to-explain-things-to-you-8548796 
• 17 Books on Race Every White Person Needs to Read https://www.bustle.com/p/17-books-on-race-every-white-person-needs-to-read-76401
• Why Kids Need LGBTQ+ Middle-grade Books http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=13530 
• Occasional Paper 29 - Equity and Assessment: Moving Towards Culturally Responsive Assessment http://learningoutcomesassessment.org/occasionalpapertwentynine.html 
• Ames Public Library, Camp Drag https://www.facebook.com/events/1509993985795847/ 
• ‘Ask Me’: What LGBTQ Students Want Their Professors to Know https://www.chronicle.com/article/Ask-Me-What-LGBTQ/232797/ [11:50 min video]
• The Librarian at the Nexus of the Harlem Renaissance https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/harlem-renaissance-librarian-regina-anderson 
• No more library fines for most young readers in L.A. County http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-no-library-fines-20171225-story.html 
• High school principal installs free laundromat at school to deter bullying https://www.kcci.com/article/high-school-principal-installs-free-laundromat-at-school-to-deter-bullying/22785652 
• Childhood trauma leaves scars that are genetic, not just emotional, study affirms https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/childhood-trauma-leaves-scars-that-are-genetic-not-just-emotional-study-affirms/507-576550535 
• Princeton University Library partners with HBCUs in inaugural archiving program https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/07/30/princeton-university-library-partners-hbcus-inaugural-archiving-program 
• Iowa 4-H director fired after progressive LGBTQ inclusion policy inflames conservative groups https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/courtney-crowder/2018/08/03/iowa-4-h-director-fired-lgbtq-policy-controversy-4-h/894921002/ 
• MAPPING INEQUALITY: Redlining in New Deal America. Mapping Inequality introduces viewer to the records of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on a scale that is unprecedented. Here you can browse more than 150 interactive maps and thousands of "area descriptions." These materials afford an extraordinary view of the contours of wealth and racial inequality in Depression-era American cities and insights into discriminatory policies and practices that so profoundly shaped cities that we feel their legacy to this day. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/36.721/-96.943&opacity=0.8 From NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/19/498536077/interactive-redlining-map-zooms-in-on-americas-history-of-discrimination
• An Interview with Poet and Editor H. Melt https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=15427 
• Des Moines mayor: hateful message has "no place in our city" https://www.weareiowa.com/news/local-news/des-moines-mayor-hateful-message-has-no-place-in-our-city-/1407506893  

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