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‘Diversity,’ feminized work, and other truth bombs at ACRL 2017
Our profession is steeped in a murky racial and gendered history. When Roxane Gay came on stage, the first thing she said to us was “man, there’s a lot of white people in this room.” And, she’s right. Librarianship has been feminized and white ever since Melvil Dewey. You remember, the Dewey decimal system guy?…
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What does a librarian do, exactly?
This has been a question my family has been asking me for quite some time now. And frankly, I am not sure what to tell them. Through my first semester at Clarion University of Pennsylvania’s MLS program, I have found that librarians do EVERYTHING. It seems that our work is never done. It could be…