Category: Conferences and Webinars

Greetings everyone!

If you’re making your way to the Indiana Library Federation’s annual conference, please stop by the IBLN booth and say hello!

The Indiana Black Librarians Network is happy to announce that Indianapolis will be hosting the 12th National Conference of African American Librarians (NCAAL XII).  Culture Keepers XII: Unity in Diversity: Stronger Together in the African Diaspora.

IBLN President Mahasin Ameen and IBLN Secretary Rhonda Oliver are serving as program co-chairs.

IBLN members will recieve a registration discount for the conference.

If you are interested in volunteering for NCAAL XII please email ncaalxii@bcala.org.

The UC Davis Libraries and the Librarians Association of the University of California, Davis Chapter is hosting a special Zoom talk by Dr. Renate Chancellor – Libraries, Leadership and Social Justice: Lessons from E.J. Josey – on Wednesday, February 10, at 1:00pm PT (details below). 

The event is free and open to all library professionals. Registration [https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcuqqqzgqEtO2xOGLaaGsTd0Xs-gD18KN] is required to receive the link to join. We look forward to seeing you there!

LIBRARIES, LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Lessons from E.J. Josey

Librarian, educator and activist E.J. Josey stands out within the broader social and political landscape of civil rights for his courage and leadership in desegregating the library profession. As president of the American Library Association (ALA) from 1984 to 1985, he successfully drafted a resolution preventing state library associations from discriminating against librarians of color — an act considered by many to have desegregated the ALA.

During this online talk, Dr. Renate Chancellor, author of E. J. Josey: Transformational Leader of the Modern Library Profession (2020), will seek to answer the following questions: How did Josey transform the modern profession? What lessons can we take from his leadership and apply today?

Renate Chancellor is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America. She received her Master’s and Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA. Dr. Chancellor’s research focuses on human information behavior, organizational leadership, social justice in library and information science, and library education at historically black colleges and universities. She has published in scholarly journals and presented her research in national and international venues. Recent publications include: E.J. Josey: Transformational Leader in the Modern Library Profession; Racial Battle Fatigue: The Unspoken Burden of Black Women Faculty In LIS; Struggling to Breathe: COVID-19, protest and the LIS response; and Libraries on the Frontlines: Neutrality and Social Justice. She is a recipient of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Leadership Award and the ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award.

There are 13 scholarships available for public library staff to apply for the 2020 Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Virtual National Institute [ala.org] which will take place online between October 2-3.  Due to COVID-19 and the conference moving online, we’re able to offer more scholarships than normal due to the lower cost involved.  The details for the scholarships are as follows:

Number of Scholarships:  20 minimum

Deadline:  September 9th by end of day (recipients will be notified on 9.11)

Application Link:  ALSC Scholarship [surveymonkey.com]

If awarded a scholarship, conference attendees will be expected to participate in a “Teach Back [docs.google.com]” as a way to share the knowledge they gained with the wider Virginia library world.

For more information regarding scholarships from the Library of Virginia, please see our Scholarships [vpl.virginia.gov] page on the InfoCenter.  If you have any questions, please let me know.  Thanks and have a wonderful rest of your day!

Reagen