Liberatory Librarianship

Brian W. Keith, MLIS and MBA, is a professor and the dean of library services at Eastern Illinois University. Previously, he was associate dean and the university librarian at the University of Florida. Brian has envisioned and shaped libraries in terms of spaces, services, collections, and partnerships. He has an extensive record of professional accomplishment and national and international scholarship and service focusing on DEAIJ. He is a past recipient of the SirsiDynix—American Library Association & Allied Professional Association’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers, and he was an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow.Laurie Taylor, PhD, is the associate university librarian for collections and discovery at the University of Connecticut Library. She was previously the senior director for library technology and digital strategies at the University of Florida, and the operational lead and digital scholarship director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean. In 2018, Laurie was named Caribbean Information Professional of the Year by the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries.Shamin Renwick, MLIS, PhD, FCLIP, is a senior librarian II at the School of Education Library, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, and has served as director of library services at St. George’s University, Grenada. She has been a librarian for more than 36 years, 24 of them as an academic librarian. Renwick was awarded the ACURILEANA Star 2007 for research and publication and the ACURILEAN Medal for significant contributions to ACURIL (the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries). In 2012, she was named an Outstanding Graduate of the 1980s of the Department of Library and Information Science, UWI Mona Campus.

• Introduction Part I: Liberatory Librarians Chapter 1: Dr. Alma Jordan Shamin Renwick Chapter 2: Lillian Marrero: Sanctuary and Solidarity through Libraries Tania MarÍa RÍos Marrero Chapter 3: Rosa Quintero Mesa: The University of Florida’s Liberatory Librarianship Defied Global Politics Richard Phillips Chapter 4: Judith Rogers: Visionary and Organic Leader Laurie Taylor Part II: Programs That Support LiberationChapter 5: Liberatory Librarianship in a Public Library Brian Boies Chapter 6: The KNOW Systemic Racism Project at Stanford University Felicia A. Smith Part III: The Personal as ProfessionalChapter 7: My Brother’s Keeper Tiffany Grant, LaWanda Singleton, and Clementine Adeyemi Chapter 8: Disabled in the Library JJ PionkePart IV: Histories of LiberationChapter 9: Elevating Diverse Voices in Service of Liberatory Librarianship Willa Liburd Tavernier, Ursula Romero, and Christina JonesChapter 10: Unsiloed, Cross-Jurisdictional DEI Tiffany J. Grant, Mikaila Corday, Michelle McKinney, Margaux Patel, Eira Tansey, and June Taylor-Slaughter Chapter 11: Hidden Histories and Radical Reading Lists: Restorative Justice at SOAS Library Farzana Qureshi and Ludi Price Part V: Liberatory Instruction and TrainingChapter 12: “We Are . . . Library Users!”: Developing a Liberatory Library Instruction Program for College Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Bernadette A. Lear Chapter 13: Critical Reflections on the University of Kentucky’s Basic Archives Workshop: Status Quo or Transformation? Sarah Dorpinghaus and Ruth E. BryanPart VI: Imaging and Enacting Liberation TogetherChapter 14: Empathy as Resistance? The Concept of Empathy in Liberatory Librarianship Sabine Jean Dantus Appendix: AcronymsAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex