Research Catalog

Title

Librarians with spines : information agitators in an age of stagnation / edited by Yago S. Cura, Max Macias.

Publication

• Los Angeles, California : [Hinchas de Poesía Press], [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cura, Yago S.
• Macias, Max

Description

xii, 174 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• volume 1. It is a book all LIS educators and administrators need to read now. The editors and author contributors show us by direct action what critical librarianship is. At the heart of the book is an ethics of care and self-care, an ethics born out of critical stances positioned in examining our rich intersectionalities and inter-being as people of color and allies. Librarians With Spines is a call to action that asks us to reflect on our intentionality as information professionals. It challenges librarians to proudly uphold and carry forward our duty to serve our communities in our daily work.
• volume 2. "Jello Biafra, the singer of the punk band Dead Kennedys, has frequently admonished, "Don't hate the media, become the media." This classic DIY call echoes the well-known advice to "be the change you want to see happen," and this is what LWS2 does. It embodies a change that Yago S. Cura and Max Macias and the authors in this volume want to see happen: to see the library and librarianship become more open, diverse, and civic-minded. Despite our rhetoric of equality, too often libraries and librarianship have been gatekeepers of hegemonic discourse ... sometimes by design, sometimes by accident. But they need not be, and that is the point of this volume. Grace Yamada, in the lead essay in this collection, nailed it when she asserted, "Libraries of all kinds can act as a foundational space and early adopters of not only digital technological access, but civic life and culture." Don't hate the pace, become the space! Kael Moffat, Librarian, St Martin's University"--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Information agitators in an age of stagnation

Subjects

• Librarians > Professional ethics
• Minority librarians
• Library science > Moral and ethical aspects
• Prison libraries > United States
• Minorities in library science
• Libraries and community > United States
• African Americans and libraries

Note

• Publisher from Amazon.com.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-171) and index.

Contents

• volume 1. Experiencing whiteness of LIS education: an autoethnographic account / Anthony Bishop and Kael Moffat -- Engaging the future of zine librarianship / Ann Matsushima Chiu -- The importance of librarian ethnic caucuses and the slander of "self-segregation" / Jason Alston -- I'm not a token: reflections on Black and Latinx representation and youth services / Diana Lopez and Aquita Winslow -- Critlib management: leading and inspiring through a social justice framework / Candise Branum -- Prison libraries: on the fringe of the library world / Mary Rayme -- The remix: Hip Hop Information Literacy pedagogy in the 21st century / kYmberly Keeton -- Using technology to communicate, educate and empower girls of color (GOC) / Loida Garcia-Febo -- Lowriders in space: how a graphic novel built a community / Cathy Camper.
• volume 2. Digital citizenship in its second decade : an examination and a way forward / Grace Yamada -- Senior citizen zinesters / Yago Cura -- Remembering consciousness is power : working to center academic library outreach in the service of social justice, Asian and Pacific Islander American ethnic visibility, and coalition-building / Melissa Cardenas-Dow and Judy Lee -- Speaking out of turn : reflections from behind the reference desk / Sheila Garcia, Erica Soto, Angelo Moreno and Nephtali Gomez -- Amira in America : a graphic pathfinder to refugees / Andrea Castillo, Carmen A. Collins, Liz Larabee and Dolly Martino -- Takeaways from the Hampton LIS Forum / Miguel Juárez, Jina DuVernay and Rebecca Hankins.
• volume 3. How many consultants does it take to undiversify our information workplaces / Yago Cura and Dan Nishimoto -- The appearance of change / Marci Ramiro-Jenkins -- Come see the violence inherent in the system: Labor in the neoliberal academic library / Andrew Barber and Michelle Gohr -- Overcoming barriers to library empowerment for immigrants and other non-mainstream groups / Oleg Kagan -- Our silence will not save us: confronting oppression in public librarianship / Yesenia Villar -- Spanglish interview of star khan, bilingual library outreach badass / Star Khan and Yago Cura -- did you just call yourself an activist? a few words regarding one of LIS's most persistent delusions of grandeur / Jason K. Alston -- Development, implementation, and assessment of empowerment curriculum for public housing residents: Advances in teaching, engagement, collaboration, and resolve / Roland Barksdale-Hall

Call Number

Sc E 17-1369

ISBN

• 9780984539888
• 0984539883
• 9781732484825
• 1732484821
• 9781954640054
• 1954640056

LCCN

2017937777

OCLC

987577266

Title

Librarians with spines : information agitators in an age of stagnation / edited by Yago S. Cura, Max Macias.

Publisher

Los Angeles, California : [Hinchas de Poesía Press], [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-171) and index.

Added Author

Cura, Yago S., editor.

Macias, Max, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-1369 Library has : v. 1-3