Over the course of this year, I have not really considered the relationship between race and libraries before reading the book chapter entitled “Mapping Whiteness at the Reference Desk.” From the beginning of the chapter, there was one sentence in particular that really stood out to me: “Perhaps one question that reference librarians of color,… Continue Reading Race and libraries: my Takeaways from “Mapping whiteness at the reference desk”
Month: May 2021
How to Move Forward: My Thoughts on “Mapping Whiteness at the Reference Desk”
Can libraries be a site for social justice? How can topics about diversity, equity, and inclusion be integrated into information literacy training? These were just some of the questions that we started to explore during our discussion of Hathcock and Sendaula’s “Mapping Whiteness at the Reference Desk”. Before discussing this book chapter, I never really… Continue Reading How to Move Forward: My Thoughts on “Mapping Whiteness at the Reference Desk”