Hopeful visions, practical actions : cultural humility in library work
Hopeful visions, practical actions : cultural humility in library work
- London : Facet Publishing, 2023
- xxiii, 236p
This book offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognizing and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. This collection, the first book-length treatment of this approach in libraries, gathers contributors from across the field to demonstrate how cultural humility can change the way we work and make lasting impacts on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries.
9781783306336
Library and Information Services
Inclusion
Diversity
Culture
Ethnic Groups
Z 250
This book offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognizing and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. This collection, the first book-length treatment of this approach in libraries, gathers contributors from across the field to demonstrate how cultural humility can change the way we work and make lasting impacts on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries.
9781783306336
Library and Information Services
Inclusion
Diversity
Culture
Ethnic Groups
Z 250