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Practicing Social Justice in Libraries
Practicing Social Justice in Libraries provides practical strategies, tools, and resources to library and information workers and students who wish to drive change in their classrooms, institutions, and communities and incorporate social justice into their everyday practice. With contributions from a diverse group of librarians, who have experience working in different types of institutions and roles, the book showcases the actions information professionals, largely from historically marginalized groups, are taking to create a more socially responsible environment for themselves and their communities. The chapters reflect on personal experiences, best practices for programming, professional ...
Knowledge Justice
Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color--reimagine library and information science through the lens of critical race theory. In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies.
Discoverability in Digital Repositories
While most discoverability evaluation studies in the Library and Information Science field discuss the intersection of discovery layers and library systems, this book looks specifically at digital repositories, examining discoverability from the lenses of system structure, user searches, and external discovery avenues. Discoverability, the ease with which information can be found by a user, is the cornerstone of all successful digital information platforms. Yet, most digital repository practitioners and researchers lack a holistic and comprehensive understanding of how and where discoverability happens. This book brings together current understandings of user needs and behaviors and poses th...
Walking Naked
'Every school has one. They are ugly or fat. They have scars or acne or birthmarks. We are mean to them. We ridicule them. We don't want to stand near them or sit next to them. Perdita was one of those.' Megan is one of the leaders of the in-group. She wouldn't dream of talking to Perdita, 'the Freak'. But when they are thrown together in detention, she finds herself drawn into a spiky, challenging almost-friendship. Megan faces an uncomfortable truth: Perdita or the group? This sharply observed, unflinching story is about the ins and outs of girls' friendships, the power of words and poetry and the painful getting of wisdom.
Saving Alyssa
She's not the kid she used to be...not by a long shot She had a crush on him when she was a teen and Roger was in college...and made his life miserable as only the friend of a guy's little sister can. Years later, Emmy Lou returns to Phoenix, divorced, with an asthmatic little boy at the centre of her world. Grieving the death of his wife, Roger reluctantly asks her for help with his young twins and teen daughter who's proving as difficult to handle as Em used to be. Just as they finally begin to find happiness together, a career move comes between them. Because it affects Em's child, whose welfare means more to her than...anything.
Saving Jessie
With her very life on the line, what other choice did Jessie have but to submit to their demands? Forced to choose between country, kin and lover, Jessica Roe had no option but to betray one of them.Forensic Accountant Jessica Roe felt fortunate to have escaped her illegal ex-employer without repercussions and happily settled into her current job with Jacquard & Associates. The securities company was your standard ex-military, ex-government agents doing event and private security, and other VIP requests at a high price. They were good. Her brother stopped pleading for money from her, and things were going well with Mark Jensen, whom she was dating. Life was so good.However, within a few days...
Luster
Harper Jensen is smart, beautiful, and a thief. She makes her living pulling off million-dollar jewelry heists, and spends her spare time bedding a bad-boy criminal. When the Roksana Diamond is stolen from an enigmatic Russian billionaire, he hires Harper to steal it back. She always works alone but history reminds her that robbing the Russian mob is a dangerous proposition. Eli Cruz is better known as The Centurion, an enforcer for the Romans MC. He's no stranger to the dark underbelly of New York City's crime syndicate. When his longtime lover enlists his help to pull off a risky diamond caper, her past comes back to haunt her. While dodging danger, and reconciling old sins, the gritty biker and the secretive socialite struggle to draw the lines between business, pleasure, and love.
Taking Children
"You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.
