Join Me and Others for LibraryReads In Conversation: Actively Anti-Racist Readers' Advisory

You may have seen the buzz on Twitter already, but I am very excited to announce my participation in this event:

LibraryReads in Conversation: Actively Anti-Racist Readers' Advisory

Featuring: Robin Bradford; Annabelle Mortensen, and Becky Spratford

Please join us for this live event!
Moderated by LibraryReads Executive Director, Rebecca Vnuk, the first hour will be a panel discussion while the second hour will be interactive audience conversation via chat feature. The event will be recorded for future viewing.
Topics covered will include:

Creating an EDI mission statement
Challenging yourself (and others) to read widely
Collections: diversity audits, discoverability
Doing the RA interview through the EDI lens
Genres
Booktalking

Friday, August 7th, 2020
2pm-4pm Central
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LXCtiNlnT2iHa-EJ56NRBw 

More details here.

I am very excited to move on from my lecture version of this topic [you can watch a recent recording here- although I have new info in these slides] to having a conversation about EDI and RA. This is a huge step forward from awareness that EDI issues need to be considered to ACTIVELY doing our work with an ANTI-RACIST lens. 

FAQ from the Twitter crowd:

• There will be a recording available on the LibraryReads website after the event, but if you don't want to forget, sign up and you will get the link faster.
• We have a few set topics to discuss but we are going to take your questions for up to an hour. Please ask your questions, especially the difficult ones. We want to help you. That is literally the only reason we are doing this, to help everyone be actively anti-racist.
• You do NOT have to work in a library to view this. LibraryReads requires you work in a library to vote for their monthly lists, but this conversation is free to anyone who is interested. If you are an author or publisher, reviewer or super library users-- anyone who cares about the "book atmosphere" [Robin Bradford's term]-- please sign up. We have a lot to share but we also want to hear from you.

Further questions can be directed to Rebecca Vnuk, LibraryReads Executive Director. Contact info on this page: click on her name to send an email.