Sarah R. Kostelecky is the Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication (DISC) for University of New Mexico Libraries. Her research focuses on outreach efforts to underrepresented communities, diversity in academic libraries and library collections, and Native American language resources. Previously at UNM, Sarah has served as the Education Librarian and Access Services Librarian in the Indigenous Nations Library Program (INLP). She earned both her MA in Information Resources and Library Science and BA in Sociology from the University of Arizona. Prior to working at UNM Libraries, Sarah was the Library Director at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM, the premiere educational institution for contemporary Native American arts and cultures. Along with David A. Hurley and Paulita Aguilar, she co-edited “Sharing Knowledge and Smashing Stereotypes: Representing Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous Realities in Library Collections,” a special double issue of the journal Collection Management. Sarah has enjoyed working in a variety of libraries including university, public, tribal college, and museum. She is a member of Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico.
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LIS educators and students, library directors, managers, frontline employees, and those who work behind the scenes all share how they are taking action and creating change. Thoughtfully addressing DEI issues related to policies, services, and programs, this collection’s diverse chorus of voices will both enlighten and inspire.
Cultural humility 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. This book's chapters explore such topics as
- how Indigenous adages can be tools for reflection and guidance in developing cultural humility;
- the experiences of two Black librarians who are using cultural humility to change the profession;
- new perspectives on core concepts of customer service;
- rethinking policies and practices in libraries both large and small;
- using cultural humility in approaching collection development and creating resource guides;
- what cultural humility can look like for a tribal librarian working in a tribal college library; and
- reflecting on cultural humility itself and where it is going.
Examination copies are available for instructors who are interested in adopting this title for course use. An e-book edition of the text will be available shortly after the print edition is published.
Foreword by Mark A. Puente
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Origins
1 “Time Is a Ship That Never Casts Anchor”: Indigenous Adages in Promoting Cultural Humility
Loriene Roy and Leisa Moorhouse
2 Redressing Power Imbalances in Librarianship Using Cultural Humility: A Perspective from Two Black Librarians
Twanna Hodge and Xan Goodman
3 Getting Past “Approachability”: What Cultural Humility Brings to Library and Information Education
Lilliana Montoya and Sarah Polkinghorne
Part II Reflective Practice
4 Reflections on Culturally Humble Practice in Bibliography, Scholarship, and Readers’ Advisory: A Case Study
Michael Mungin
5 Cultural Humility and Evaluating Books for Young Readers
Silvia Lin Hanick and Kelsey Keyes
6 Learn, Act, Connect: Thriving as an International Librarian and Global Citizen
Meggan Houlihan, Amanda Click, and Dina Meky
7 Cultural Humility in Instruction on Health Outreach Projects: Revising a Course on the Grant-Writing Process
Jarrod Irwin
Part III Community
8 Embedding Diné Culture in Individual and Institutional Cultural Humility Practices: A View from the Tribal College Library
Rhiannon Sorrell
9 Beyond Late Fees: Eliminating Access Barriers for Everyone
Carrie Valdes
10 Small Changes Make an Impact: How Access and Metadata Services Teams Address Cultural Humility
Melanie Bopp, Tricia Mackenzie, and Kimberley A. Edwards
11 Cultural Humility and Servant Leadership
Mark Emmons
Part IV Hopeful Visions
12 Knowing (un)Knowings: Cultural Humility, the Other(s), and Theories of Change
nicholae cline and Jorge R. López-McKnight
13 Cultural Humility: A Journey to Radical Self-Love
Naghem Swade and Daniyom “Dani” Bekele
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