Advocacy, Outreach and Collaboration

Panel

Librarians With Spines Panel

Panel Organizer(s)

• JA

  Jason Alston

  Information Literacy Librarian
  Coastal Carolina University

Panel Presenter(s)

• kK

  kYmbely Keeton

  Independent Publisher/Art Librarian
  bookista media group
• AB

  Anthony Bishop

  Professor/Librarian
  Burough of Manhattan Community College
• 

  Mary Rayme, MS

  Librarian
  State of Maryland

A panel discussion on what it takes to create an independent book like Librarians with Spines. Each Panelist will present concerning their chapters. Other authors and the editors will be in the audience. This program is meant to catalyze librarians of color to produce more content, books and innovations. We will take questions and describe our processes. This is a diverse group of librarians and they have much to say about unique aspects of librarianship such and Hip-Hop culture and libraries, Prison Librarianship, the vitality and importance of Library Ethnic Caucuses and more, whiteness in LIS and more.

The panelists are:

kYmberely Keeton
Anthony Bishop
Mary Rayme
Jason Alston

 

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion participants will be able to articulate the book production process.
• Upon completion participants will be able to recognize the importance of independent publishing by librarians of color.
• Upon completion participants will be able to articulate the importance of hip-hop, prison libraries, whiteness in LIS education and the importance of library ethnic caucuses.