Marilyn Clarke – författare

Drawing on anti-racist and anti-colonial frameworks, this ground-breaking collection brings together the perspectives and experiences of different practicing librarians, researchers, and educators across the world, who engage with anti-racist and anti-colonial practices in Library and Information Science (LIS).With contributions and case studies from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and the US, this volume examines the dynamically shifting role between anti-racism and anti-colonialism and library institutions in the context of managing people, information and collections. Chapters cover:anti-Black racism in LIS literatureracial microaggressions in information literacy teachingensuring equity and inclusion in library and leadership roledecolonising library cataloguing practicescreating and managing anti-racist metadatadecolonial approaches to leadership, management and researchindigenising academic libraries.Essential reading for librarians, educators, students, and information professionals, this book invites readers to reflect on their own practice. Moreover, this books gives you the thinking tools to critically examine and challenge dominant structures and hidden curriculums in the LIS field through the knowledge and experiences of librarians engaged in anti-racist and/or anti-colonial practices.