PAST WORKSHOPS
2024
September 20, 2024
Fundamentals of Academic Publishing
with Charlotte Roh
Are you being asked to publish as part of your academic job, but new to the process? Or are you interested in getting your academic writing published? This workshop will provide clarity around the process and its politics, as well as why and where you should be involved.
Beginning August 1, 2024
How We Work Better Now: a History of Librarian Professionalization
with jaime ding
This course will study a snapshot of the histories of academic librarians, focusing on the 1950s-1970s towards asking what is the professionalization of librarianship, and why did it happen? For who did it happen? How does it affect today’s profession? Course participants will cultivate critical approaches to the past and present issues, politics, and commitment of professionalization — that is, this is a political education project in the tradition of Black Radical teachings.
Beginning April 21, 2024
Inclusive Description for Cultural Heritage Materials
with Treshani Perera
This course will be grounded in critical concepts for inclusive description and is intended for cultural heritage information workers. Concepts and learning outcomes can be applied to any description and metadata creation workflow. Attendees will also be introduced to a critical framework for inclusive and anti-racist metadata creation, and have the opportunity to reflect on and practice culturally-responsive description as part of workshop exercises.
Beginning February 5, 2024
Writing Your Personal Annual Review and Strategic Plan — A Four Week Manifesting Series
with Saira Raza
This sold out workshop is back as a four week, asynchronous course that allows you to go at your own pace.
Most of us do it every year for our employer -- why not offer yourself the same attention? See how a structured approach to setting your personal goals for the year can help you refine your values and cultivate self love and acceptance.
2023
June 24, 2023
Writing Your Personal Annual Review and Strategic Plan
with Saira Raza
This workshop has sold out every time we’ve offered it and it returned in 2023!
Most of us do it every year for our employer -- why not offer yourself the same attention? See how a structured approach to setting your personal goals for the year can help you refine your values and cultivate self love and acceptance.
April 28, 2023
Getting Started: Business Research Basics
with Saira Raza
Are you thinking about or in the early stages of starting a business, considering business librarianship, or do you work with faculty or other researchers who focus on business? Build up your business research skills with us. Participants will learn fundamental approaches to answering business-related reference questions or questions of your own as business owners with special emphasis on free, web-based sources. This workshop is geared toward beginners who are new to business research.
2022
Beginning November 7, 2022
Critical Management Studies: Critical Praxis for Library Managers
with Silvia Vong
Critical Management Studies (CMS), which emerged in the early nineties, began with critiques of management theories and though the relevance of CMS has and continues to be debated, it has expanded to include perspectives through a feminist and post-colonial lens. This course introduces selected issues in management through critical management studies literature as well as engages in some practical exercises to develop skills and learn how to apply critical reflection frameworks to management practice. The goals of the course are to focus on denaturalizing management literature through critiques of it as well as develop critical reflective practices to develop self-awareness of oppressive management practices.
Beginning October 10, 2022
Critical Concepts in Library and Information Science: Research, Teaching, and Practice
with Jamillah Gabriel
This course is an exploration of various concepts of criticalness in library and information science, paying special attention to how criticalness can and should influence our research, teaching, and practice. Concepts covered include critical theory, critical pedagogy, and critical action in direct relation to research, teaching, and practice respectively.
August 20, 2022 // We Here Only
Care through Creativity: Centering Attention with Visual Journaling
with Jewel Davis
How can we attend to ourselves creatively while also reflecting on and processing the world around us?
Visual journaling is a creative practice of meaning making that utilizes a variety of art media to combine words and images on a journal page. With visual journaling, what matters is not the art product, but the process of exploration and discovery of self. Anyone of any skill level can use visual journaling to learn about themselves and creatively make meaning about the world around them. Using visual journaling as a personal and professional practice can be one tool in helping to sustain mental well-being and participating in intentional self-care.
Beginning February 1, 2022
Words on Display: Curating Library Exhibitions
with Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler
This asynchronous course examines exhibitions in theory and practice focusing on the work of curators, including conceptualization, selection, interpretation, and politics of display. In particular, we will discuss the unique challenges of presenting a book-based (or word-based) exhibition within library spaces. Both physical and online exhibits will be discussed.
January 29, 2022
Writing Your Personal Annual Review and Strategic Plan (2022)
with Saira Raza
Most of us do it every year for our employer -- why not offer yourself the same attention? See how a structured approach to setting your personal goals for the year can help you refine your values and cultivate self love and acceptance.
2021
Decemeber 2, 2021
Writing Your Personal Annual Review and Strategic Plan
with Saira Raza
Most of us do it every year for our employer -- why not offer yourself the same attention? See how a structured approach to setting your personal goals for the year can help you refine your values and cultivate self love and acceptance.
September 20, 2021
Introduction to Critical Race Theory in Library and Information Studies
with Sofia Leung
This webinar will seek to answer the question, what is Critical Race Theory (CRT) and where and why has it intersected with Library and Information Studies (LIS)?
September 16, 2021 // We Here Only
A Critical Management Studies Perspective on Leading in Libraries
with Silvia Vong
Critical Management Studies (CMS) explores the larger social and economic forces (e.g. capitalism, neoliberalism) that drive the social and professional practices of managers in organizations. While CMS provides a macro perspective on management behaviours, little is addressed in how these forces impact racialized people and communities. This session will introduce attendees to CMS in tandem with Critical Race Theory (CRT) to identify problematic social practices and structures in libraries.
This event is part of our Mission Critical programming.
June 17, 2021
Critical Library Programming for Public Libraries
with Crystal Chen, Nicollette Davis, and Constance Milton
Public library programs are often a great way to engage communities and expose patrons to library services. However, there are very few meaningful resources for programming librarians to examine their practices in a critical manner. During this webinar, participants will be presented with various topics to plan, create, and implement inclusive library programs for adults and teens.
June 10, 2021
Library Exhibitions: Beyond Book Covers
with Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler
Libraries and archives are increasingly establishing exhibition programs as a way to highlight collections and engage visitors, beyond the traditional book cover display. But what are the best ways to plan exhibitions? What should you consider before embarking on storytelling and interpretation? This seminar will focus on a programmatic approach to library exhibitions, including policies and procedures, capacity building, and best practices as they relate to conceptualization, research and object selection, interpretation and label writing, borrowing materials, and funding. Both physical and digital exhibits will be discussed.
June 9, 2021
Critical Race Theory and Library Philanthropy: Carnegie Libraries at HBCUs and Interest Convergence
with Shaundra Walker, Ph.D.
At a time when philanthropy is becoming increasingly important to public institutions such as libraries, this webinar will explore the application of Critical Race Theory to the Carnegie Library Grant program. While the grants to build public libraries are well known, those provided to higher education institutions have not received as much attention. Even more obscure is research on the library buildings constructed on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Critical Race Theory has the potential to add valuable perspectives to discussions of the impact of philanthropy, because it elevates the lived experiences of those who have been relegated to the margins of society.
May 15, 2021
Designing Context-Driven Programming and Content
with Amanda Figueroa and Ravon Ruffin of Brown Art Ink
In this workshop/seminar, we will work together to design public engagement strategies for both digital and in-person events that respond to a series of situations common to cultural organizations. In the first hour, Amanda and Ravon of Brown Art Ink will lay out the principles for context-driven work that they use as community engagement experts. The following hours will be spent applying those principles in practice around specific circumstances including: content for deepening audience engagement and attracting new audiences, as crisis response, and despite resistance from other organization staff or leadership.
May 11, 2021
Library Programming for Beginners: How to Make It Happen
with Kelly Campos
This workshop, aimed at people with limited programming experience, will illustrate concrete methods of planning library programs for all ages, and give you the support you need to confidently plan and execute a variety of programs from Grab & Go Kits to larger scale in-person events.
April 20, 2021
Global Work/Learning Opportunities for BIPOC Library Workers
with Raymond Pun
For We Here Members Only.
Beginning April 5, 2021
Trauma Informed Librarianship
with Nisha Mody
This course will introduce participants to trauma-informed care with a lens on librarianship. During this course, students will gain a better understanding of how collective trauma results from institutional oppression and how this looks in different library settings.
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Writing Your Personal Annual Review and Strategic Plan
with Saira Raza
Most of us do it every year for our employer - - why not offer yourself the same attention? See how a structured approach to setting your personal goals for the year can help you refine your values and cultivate self love, compassion, and acceptance.
February 20, 2021 // We Here Only
Cultivating Intuition: Rooting Our In-Sight
with Celia O. Hilson
We Here Members Only.
Beginning January 26, 2021
Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory in LIS?
with Sofia Leung and Jorge López-McKnight
How does white supremacy structure racial inequities through libraries? Utilizing a Critical Race Theory (CRT) lens, this question becomes the central concern of investigation in our teaching and learning. In this three-week workshop*, we will provide an introduction to the foundations and core ideas of CRT--an intellectual, action-oriented justice project emerging from legal scholarship rooted in identifying, interrogating, and ultimately changing race and racism in society--and apply them to core ideas of Library and Information Studies (LIS).
2020
October 6, 2020 // We Here Members Only
Designing Rituals for Pleasure and Care
with Denise Shanté Brown
How might we create moments of meaning that awaken the possibility of more fulfilling, nurturing experiences in our lives and work? In Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, adrienne maree brown shares, “We are what we practice. We become what we do over and over again.” Within this three-day healing-centric and creative experience, Denise will offer space for us to deepen our relationship with pleasure as form of care and ritual as an intentional reflection of who we are becoming. She will guide us through critical meditations on our personal and generational dis/connections to pleasure, bodywork exercises to attune to the areas of our ives longing for ritual, and activate sites within ourselves to reimagine and design pleasure-based moments so that we can bring sacred intention into our lives and our work.
October 6, 2020
Incorporating Critical Cataloging into Your Work
With Treshani Perera and Deidre Thompson
In this webinar, two librarians of color discuss their experience incorporating critical cataloging principals as part of their work, and provide examples and strategies for prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice as part of cataloging and metadata work. Originally recorded on October 6, 2020 and the recording and presenter slides are now available for purchase.
September 26, 2020
Remember and Reclaim Expression: A Discussion on Workplace Trauma
with Celia O. Wilson
For We Here Members only.
July 25, 2020
Video Creation and Editing for Instruction in Libraries
with Carly Lamphere
Video creation and editing is often a skill many librarians and library workers are expected to have in their toolbox, yet there is no universal formal course to acquire the skill, with many librarians and library workers learning on the fly to produce videos as quickly and thrifty as possible. As a result the video creation process is often overwhelming and over complicated for many individuals tasked to create content. In this webinar, Electronic Services and Instruction Librarian Carly Lamphere offers her experience creating library instruction videos for various institutions.
2020
Just What is Critical Race Theory and What’s It Doing in LIS?
with Sofia Leung and Jorge López-McKnight
How does white supremacy structure racial inequities through libraries? Utilizing a Critical Race Theory (CRT) lens, this question, and the one in the title, become the central concerns of investigation in our teaching and learning. In this five-week workshop, the instructional designers provided an introduction to the foundations and core ideas of CRT — an intellectual, action-oriented justice project emerging from legal scholarship rooted in identifying, interrogating, and ultimately changing race and racism in society — and applied them to core ideas of Library and Information Studies (LIS).