2024 SRRT Afternoon of Social Justice
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Each session was recorded for those who couldn't attend live. Each session info below includes the link to that particular video or you can:
July 31, 2024 11:00am - 5:30pm Central Time
Join the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) for our fifth annual Afternoon of Social Justice. This free virtual event features scholars and librarians as they present on a variety of topics including jail libraries in the Philippines, support for library workers seeking accommodations, patrons experiencing homelessness, and film viewing and Q&A for the documentary, Breaking the News.
Schedule (Central Time):
11:00am - 11:45am Community Jail Library: Promoting Equitable Access, Literacy, Inclusivity, Nationalism, and Hope
12:00pm - 1:00pm Libraries, Librarianship, and Support for Workers Seeking Accommodations: How to Build More Equitable, Accessible, and Inclusive Practices for All
1:30pm - 2:30pm Patrons (Experiencing Homelessness), Policies, & Parity
3:00pm - 5:00pm Film Screening: Breaking the News
5:00pm - 5:30 pm Film Discussion: Breaking the News
Note: Registrants for the film will also receive a streaming preview link for those who cannot attend the live viewing.
Community Jail Library: Promoting Equitable Access, Literacy, Inclusivity, Nationalism, and Hope
11:00am - 11:45am (Central)
In the Philippines, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) serves detainees accused before a court who are temporarily confined while undergoing investigation, awaiting final judgment, or serving a sentence promulgated by the court of less than three years. In line with BJMP's function to administer and provide for the basic needs of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL), to conduct activities for PDLs’ development, and to improve jail facilities, a group of librarians and paraprofessionals conducted a survey of more than 1,000 PDL in seven jail facilities to understand their information needs while inside to prepare them for life after incarceration. As a result, a jail library dubbed NcelLIBERation Community Jail Library: Cell. Liber (Freedom /Books). Nation. was established at each facility. This presentation will discuss the experiences, challenges, and practical approaches to sustain the program, as compared to US prison libraries.
Presenters:
Stephen Biaco Alayon, Associate Professor at the College of Information and Communications Technology, West Visayas State University in Iloilo City
Analyn Gersabalino Bocal, librarian, Iloilo Science and Technology University - Dumangas Campus
Roselyn Capulot Sicabalo, technical librarian, John B. Lacson Colleges Foundation (Bacolod), Inc.
Ma. Cecilia Delariarte Baldevarona, school library staff at St . John's Institute North Point Campus, Talisay City, Negros Occidental.
Libraries, Librarianship, and Support for Workers Seeking Accommodations: How to Build More Equitable, Accessible, and Inclusive Practices for All
12:00pm - 1:00pm (Central)
This program highlights the critical need for increased library administration and collegial support of librarians and library workers maneuvering the accommodations process. During early Fall 2023, the presenters interviewed twelve academic librarians about their experiences seeking disability accommodations from their workplaces. From these honest, intimate, and emotional conversations, the presenters uncovered themes that speak clearly to a demand for substantial change both in the accommodations process itself and the support systems within library workplaces. This scholarship-based presentation will dive deeper into how libraries may be emboldened to foster more equitable, inclusive, and accessible workspaces; and the presenters will focus on practical, implementable approaches to doing so.
Presenters:
Abigail Phillips, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dustin Fife, PhD, Associate Professor, Rowan University
Patrons (Experiencing Homelessness), Policies, & Parity
1:30pm - 2:30pm (Central)
This presentation will explore how some library code of conduct policies are perceived to disproportionately impact patrons experiencing homelessness and may place libraries at risk of criminalizing poverty. The analyses are drawn from the findings of a multiple embedded case study of three U.S. public central libraries in large urban centers and include the perspectives of 107 participants across six different roles: patrons experiencing homelessness, front-facing library staff, CEO's, location managers, security professionals, and social workers. The implications of the findings include recommendations, examples, and input of participants to discuss how libraries can align more closely with Principle 9 of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Code of Ethics “to recognize and dismantle systemic and individual biases; to confront inequity and oppression; to enhance diversity and inclusion; and to advance racial and social justice” (91´«Ã½, 2021, para. 5).
Presenter:
Mary Provence, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Ball State University, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Film viewing and Discussion: Breaking the News
3:00pm - 5:00pm Film Screening: Breaking the News
5:00pm - 5:30 pm Film Discussion: Breaking the News
Note: Registrants for the film will also receive a streaming preview link for those who cannot attend the live viewing.
About the film: Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora wanted to do something radical about the white men dominating newsrooms: “the people deciding which stories are told, who is telling them, and whether they will be on the front page or the back page, if they get there at all.” So, Emily and Amanda, along with Editor-at-Large Errin Haines and a scrappy group of fearless women and LGBTQ+ journalists, banded together to buck the status quo and launch The 19th*, a digital news start-up. Named after the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, but with an asterisk to acknowledge the Black women and women of color who were omitted, the 19th’s work is guided everyday by the asterisk—asking who is being omitted from the story, and how they can be included. The film documents the honest discussions at The 19th* around race and gender equity, revealing that change doesn’t come easy, and showcasing how one newsroom confronts these challenges both as a workplace and in their journalism. But this film is about more than a newsroom. It’s about America in flux, and the voices that are often left out of the American story.
Presenter:
Heather Courtney, Filmmaker
