From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces: Rethinking How We Talk About Diversity in the Library Profession and Learning from Failure

Authors

  • Samantha Hines Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA

Keywords:

Safe spaces, brave spaces, equity and diversity, facilitation, librarianship, failure

Abstract

The election, and what’s happened after, have convinced me that we need to start talking more openly about diversity within the library profession and how to dismantle the struc-tural barriers that exist and persist within librarianship as well as society as a whole.

Author Biography

Samantha Hines, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA

Associate Dean of Instructional Resources

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Published

2018-02-09

Issue

Vol. 82 No. 1 (2018): 2017 Conference Issue

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Articles

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