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In Our Own Voices, Redux - The Faces of Librarianship Today (Hardcover)
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In Our Own Voices, Redux - The Faces of Librarianship Today (Hardcover)
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In the 20-year reboot of Neely and Abif's 1996 In Our Own Voices,
fifteen of the original contributors revisit their stories
alongside the fifteen new voices that have been added. This
Collective represents a wide range of life and library experiences,
gender fluidities, sexualities, races, and other visible, and
invisible identities. In addition to reflections on lives and
experiences since the 1996 volume, chapters cover the
representation of librarians of color in the profession at large,
and more specifically, those among them who are still the "only
one"; the specter of "us serving them-still;" and migrations from
libraries to other information providing professions. These authors
reflect on their careers and lives in libraries and other school
and workplace settings, as activists, administrators, archivists,
library students and information professionals. They share stories
of personal and professional abuse, attempts to find and secure
gainful employment, navigating the profession, and how they
overcame decades of normalized discrimination to complete their
educational and career pursuits. They write about the need for
support systems, work-life balance, self-care, communities of
support, and the importance of mentoring and being mentored. And
above all, they persist, and continue to disrupt systems. These
essays are from contributors from a variety of libraries and
library related environments, and provide answers to questions
professionals new to LIS haven't even asked yet. The inclusion of a
new group of librarian his-, her-, and their-stories provides a
voice for those currently finding their way through this
profession. These essays bring honesty, vulnerability,
authenticity, and impactfulness to the "diversity" conversation in
libraries and beyond. And more importantly, these voices, from a
variety of races, ethnicities, genders and sexualities, matter.
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