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The Work of Women of Color Academic Librarians in Higher Education: Perspectives on Emotional and Invisible Labor
An exploration of emotional and invisible labor in the face of COVID-19 global pandemic and pervasive social and racial unrest.
The Comprehensive Guide to Resisting Overcommitment
LIS workers often say: yes to library users, yes to colleagues, yes to supervisors, yes to administrators, and yes to community members. We find ourselves burnt-out when showing up for everyone, while leaving little for ourselves.
Make the Library Loud: Removing Communication Barriers for Library Workers with Hearing Loss
We, people of color with disabilities, work in libraries too.
Confronting Anti-Asian Racism: A Statement on (In)visibility and Targeted Online Harassment
Despite the recent spotlight on targeted online harassment affecting universities and faculty members, its effects on libraries and library workers remain largely invisible. To address this gap, Reanna Esmail recounts her recent experience of anti-Asian racism resulting from the media's coverage of an event originally intended to confront anti-Asian racism. To set the record straight, she provides and contextualizes the original transcript. To shift the spotlight back from herself onto systemic issues, she examines the social construction of visibility in other recent cases of targeted online harassment affecting library workers and threatening academic freedom.
The House Archives Built
The current trend focusing on liberating the concept of archives from physical institutions has served to mentally leave behind Black collections held in predominantly white institutions. Dorothy Berry reflects on the conflict of archives versus the archives, and how the fundamental structures of archives can disserve Black archival subjects by foregrounding ownership, collecting, and homogeneity.
The Displays: On Anti-Racist Study and Institutional Enclosure
The middle months of 2020 saw a surge in apparent institutional interest in Black freedom struggles, an intensified emphasis on information-sharing and study as anti-racist responses, and a frenzied circulation of anti-racist reading lists. David James Hudson explores the current dynamics of and historical backdrop to this institutional attention, reflecting in particular on what both the intensified interest and the make-up of the reading lists can tell us about the dynamics of anti-racism under racial capitalism.