Monday, April 24, 2023
Please join The Katharine Brush Library at the Loomis Chaffee School for the 2023 New England Association of Independent School Librarians Annual Conference on Monday, April 24, 2023.
The conference keynote speaker is Sofia Leung, a librarian, facilitator, and educator working towards fulfilling the promise of social justice in libraries and higher education. She is an editor at up//root: a We Here publication.
Keynote Presentation: Deconstructing Narratives of Good Librarianship
What does it mean to be a "good librarian"? What are the qualities of a good librarian? What values do they adhere to? What is a good librarian hoping to accomplish with their work in libraries? What goals are they/we working towards? Drawing from the work of Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Wang in their edited collection, Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education, I will explore these questions within the context of our work in libraries, why it's crucial for us to understand the myth behind "good librarianship," what is actually at work within libraries, and where we might go from there.