{"id":110,"date":"2021-07-16T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/?p=110"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:09:06","slug":"decoloniality-and-the-library-cilips-conference-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2021\/07\/16\/decoloniality-and-the-library-cilips-conference-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoloniality and the library (CILIPS Conference 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 June I attended a CILIPS conference session on <strong>Decoloniality and the library: the case at Goldsmiths, University of London, by\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.gold.ac.uk\/library-blog\/meet-the-new-director-of-goldsmiths-library-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marilyn Clarke, Director of Library Services<\/a> at Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn started off with a quote from Desmond Tutu \u201cIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.\u201d What can we do as librarians to be more than neutral?<\/p>\n<p>At Goldsmiths, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/library\/about\/liberate-our-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liberate our library working grou<\/a>p was set up to look at this question. They started out by asking : do students see library spaces, books on the shelves, which looks like them? Do students see themselves when they come into the library?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_112\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" data-attachment-id=\"112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2021\/07\/16\/decoloniality-and-the-library-cilips-conference-2021\/liberate_bookplate-clp-chapter_mc-png-217x300\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/files\/2021\/06\/Liberate_bookplate-CLP-Chapter_MC.PNG-217x300.jpg?fit=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"217,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Liberate_bookplate-CLP-Chapter_MC.PNG-217&#215;300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Liberate our Library bookplate&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/files\/2021\/06\/Liberate_bookplate-CLP-Chapter_MC.PNG-217x300.jpg?fit=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/files\/2021\/06\/Liberate_bookplate-CLP-Chapter_MC.PNG-217x300.jpg?fit=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/files\/2021\/06\/Liberate_bookplate-CLP-Chapter_MC.PNG-217x300.jpg?resize=217%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liberate our Library bookplate<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Liberatemydegree book collection has been set up with \u00a32500 annual allocation in budget<\/li>\n<li>Purchases since Autumn term 2017 \u2013 335 items. Searchable collection in catalogue.<\/li>\n<li>Bookplate for purchased items \u2013 Liberate our degrees<\/li>\n<li>Promotion \u2013 book displays, social media, SU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these new purchases have now ended up on course reading lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metadata<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking at legacy bias in library subject headings and classification systems.<\/li>\n<li>Educating our users about why we\u2019re making these changes<\/li>\n<li>Aim to develop socially aware cataloguing, which can make changes which are more representing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Goldsmiths, they are adding in additional subject headings whilst keeping existing ones. They aim to be open about history, creating more knowledge, not less.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Information literacy workshops \u2013 Resistance Researching workshops. Encouraging students to take critical approaches to information gathering, open access for Resistance Researching \u2013 how to include underrepresented voices.<\/li>\n<li>Academic departments \u2013 working in partnership with them<\/li>\n<li>BAME library graduate traineeship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Useful resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jiscmail.ac.uk\/cgi-bin\/webadmin?A0=lis-decolonise\">LIS-Decolonise<\/a> \u2013 mailing list<\/li>\n<li>Recommended book : Leung, S.Y. &amp; Lo\u0301pez-McKnight, J.R., 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/discovered.ed.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1njkql8\/44UOE_ALMA51282879970002466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Knowledge justice : disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory<\/em><\/a>, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 June I attended a CILIPS conference session on Decoloniality and the library: the case at Goldsmiths, University of London, by\u00a0Marilyn Clarke, Director of Library Services at Goldsmiths, University of London. Marilyn started off with a quote from Desmond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2021\/07\/16\/decoloniality-and-the-library-cilips-conference-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[35],"tags":[39,31,41,9,40],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcUES5-1M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":541,"url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2023\/06\/21\/critical-approaches-to-libraries-calc-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":110,"position":0},"title":"Critical Approaches to Libraries (CALC) 2023","date":"June 21, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I attended the CALC Conference on 24th and 25th May and can thoroughly recommend this annual event to other professionals interested in critical librarianship. 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