Shaping the Future Together: How Libraries Can Support Communities of Color (Black History Month Symposium)
SJSU iSchool Audio/Video Podcast
English - March 05, 2022 21:36 - 2 hours - 7.1 KB Video - ★★★ - 3 ratingsCourses Education web 2.0 library science library science education information science education san josé state university sjsu slis sjsu slis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022, the iSchool hosted its Black History Month Free Symposium titled "Shaping the Future Together: How Libraries Can Support Communities of Color". Co-keynote speakers Julius Jefferson, past president of the American Library Association, and Jené D. Brown, president of the California Library Association and director of emerging technologies and collections at Los Angeles Public Library, led the rich discussion.
Co-Keynote Addresses:
-Julius Jefferson, Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress
-Jené D. Brown, Los Angeles Public Library
The Diverse Needs of the Black Community Panel Discussion (10:45 – 11:55 a.m. Pacific Time)
-Forrest Foster – Bluford Library, North Carolina A&T State University
-Brian Hart – Forsyth County Public Libraries
-Wanda Brown – Winston-Salem State University (WSSU);
-Yolande Wilburn – Santa Cruz Public Libraries
-Shannon Jones – Medical University of South Carolina
Access the captioned version of this webcast at https://youtu.be/y8UUB2grt4c