Libraries and Crisis and More :: Bibliotecas y Crisis y Más
Libraries are with the rest of us coping with CRISIS. Intellectual production itself is under attack, but fighting back. The continuing and expensive shift to the digital. Right wing attacks on books, programs, staff, and instititions. Funding shortfalls. Social and economic polarization and dislocations. Heightening racism. A continuing pandemic. Climate change. And war in many places in the world. How do we as librarians and libraries go forward?
This semester our talks were in English and on Saturdays, from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM U.S. Central Time.
Las bibliotecas están con el resto de nosotros lidiando con CRISIS. La producción intelectual misma está bajo ataque, pero contraataca. El continuo y costoso cambio a lo digital. Ataques de la derecha a las colecciones de libros. Déficit de financiación. Polarización y dislocaciones sociales y económicas. Aumento del racismo. Una pandemia continua. Cambio climático. Y la guerra en muchos lugares del mundo. ¿Cómo avanzamos nosotros como bibliotecarios y bibliotecas? (disculpas — traducción automática)
Este semestre nuestras charlas fueron en inglés, los sábados, de 11:30 AM a 12:00 PM hora central de EE.UU. Vuelva a consultar a medida que se llene el cronograma y se publiquen las charlas completas.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Noah Lenstra (PhD Illinois), Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “Putting Community First: A Crisis in Public Librarianship”
Recording | Slides
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Chris Bailey (MSLIS Illinois), UIUC Libraries, “Getting Started with Zotero, a Great FREE Bibliographic Tool”
Recording
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Vuyokazi Jamieson, Head librarian at St Andrew’s College, Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa, “Elevating the literacy levels of South African Youth”
Recording | Slides | Vuyokazi’s project: Project 21
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Emily Drabinski, 2023-2024 ALA President, “Out of crisis, change: how ALA and you can change the world”
Recording
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Ahmad Ali Shah, University Librarian, University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), on “Burushaski dialect: Its future and the role of libraries to preserve it”
Recording | Slides | Part of his language preservation project
Saturday, October 8, 2022
Lauren Chambers (MSLIS Illinois), Programming and Outreach Manager at the Urbana Free Library, on “Out of crisis, a community mural: Why is it library work and what does it accomplish?”
Recording | Slides
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Karen Tyrell, Librarian, The University of the West Indies, Mona, on “How libraries are adapting to challenging times: A Jamaican Perspective”
Recording
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Halimah Shabazz (MSLIS Illinois), PhD student, University of Illinois iSchool, on “Pathblazing Black PhDs in Library and Information Science: Past and Present”
Recording | Slides
Saturday, November 5, 2022
This week our minitalks crew looks at Extreme Weather and Inequality, taking the discussion to a community deeply affected by both: Beaumont, Texas. Co-hosted by the Lamar University Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast.
Ancient to the Future Project | Recording Welcome part | Panel 1 recording | Panel 2 recording | Panel 3 recording | Panel 4 & 5 recording
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Carolyn Foote, until recently the technolibrarian at Westlake High School in Austin, TX, and district librarian for Eanes ISD, on “The Texas Freadom Fighters: What we (four school librarians) did”
Recording | Slides
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Claudia Grisales Bohórquez, PhD student, University of Illinois iSchool, on “Community libraries and urban environmental struggles in Bogotá, Colombia”
Recording | Slides
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Guangchun Zheng, PhD student, University of Illinois iSchool, on “Bridging information and communication technology and older adults by social network”
Recording | Slides