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Cultural Humility

Cultural Humility

Hurley, David A.
Kostelecky, Sarah R.
Townsend, Lori

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ISBN10: 0838949886
ISBN13: 9780838949887
Publisher: ALA Editions
Published: Aug 17 2022
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.80
Language: English
This accessible and compelling Special Report introduces cultural humility, a lifelong practice that can guide library workers in their day-to-day interactions by helping them recognize and address structural inequities in library services.

Cultural humility is emerging as a preferred approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within librarianship. At a time when library workers are critically examining their professional practices, cultural humility offers a potentially transformative framework of compassionate accountability; it asks us to recognize the limits to our knowledge, reckon with our ongoing fallibility, educate ourselves about the power imbalances in our organizations, and commit to making change. This Special Report introduces the concept and outlines its core tenets. As relevant to those currently studying librarianship as it is to long-time professionals, and applicable across multiple settings including archives and museums, from this book readers will

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