How To Build An Antiracist Library Culture

Wednesday, September 28 – Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | Three-week online course.

Guest speaker sessions via Zoom:

• Wednesday, September 28, from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm PDT
• Tuesday, October 4, from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm PDT
• Tuesday, October 11, from 11:00 am – 1:30 pm PDT

Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of implicit bias, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens—to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library.

Practical coursework, along with targeted support, will take you from theory to application, providing tools and resources that will help you to transform your library culture and services by examining them through an equity lens.

Over 3+ weeks, you’ll complete engaging, interactive assignments that will help you to build both your individual and collective capacity in the areas of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Your work in the interactive online classroom is supported by personal coaching from an expert in the field via an asynchronous workshop. In addition, you’ll have access to our foundational bonus content—rich supporting materials you can explore at your own pace, including a series of webinars from Library Journal and School Library Journal contributors, readings, activities, and videos.

Find out more about what to expect from a Library Journal Course in this short video. 

See the list of speakers here.

CALL SPONSORED: CALL is offering a limited number of free seats to California library staff in this Library Journal course. Please use the link above to register for one of these no-cost seats. In order to gain the most impact from learning events sponsored by the CALL grant we ask that all participants engage fully (attend, participate, discuss and share). If you are unable or not willing to agree to this, please be kind and leave a seat or place for someone else.