LibVoices

LibVoices

Hear from librarians of color speak to the fullness of their careers including successes, challenges, and achievements. How do they do it? Join co-hosts Jamia Williams and Jamillah R. Gabriel to find out more about their #LibVoices. Please follow us on all of our social media pages!

  1. 11/12/2024

    Episode 50: Patty Wong on Mentorship, Representation, and Leadership

    Patty Wong has been the City Librarian for the Santa Clara City Library since October 2021. Her career includes leadership roles in diverse settings, encompassing urban, rural, and suburban communities. As a seasoned part-time faculty member at SJSU iSchool, she also held the position of ALA President from 2021 to 2022. Patty is recognized for her contributions to equity, diversity, inclusion, digital equity, and youth development.

    1hr 12min

  2. 10/11/2024

    Episode 49: Tiffani N. Carter on Authenticity, Leadership, and Community

    In this episode, we interview Tiffani N. Carter.

    59 min

  3. 11/10/2024

    Episode 48: Derek Mosley on Peer Mentorship, Retention, and Community Archives

    Derek T. Mosley is the Archives Division Manager at Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia. He has held this role since 2016. He has previously worked at the Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Mosley’s enthusiastic and engaged leadership has shaped the archival profession on local and national levels. He has served on conference planning committees, election committees, and scholarship committees for several organizations. He is a founding member of the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance, a group that strives to educate Black communities on the importance of documenting their stories, and he was a member of the 2019 cohort of the Archives Leadership Institute. In 2021, he received the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History. In 2023, Mosley was inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, the highest honor the organization bestows. In 2024 Derek was elected as the Vice-President and President-Elect of the Society of American Archivists. He graduated from Simmons University with an M.S. in Archives Management and Morehouse College with a B.A. in History.

    34 min

  4. 10/09/2024

    Episode 47: Anastasia Chiu on Vocational Awe, Publishing, and Collaboration

    Anastasia is an academic librarian interested in inclusion, retention, and representation in library workplace cultures. They work as a scholarly communications librarian at NYU and were previously a metadata librarian. Their research includes multiple topics, including applying critical race theory and relational-cultural theory in librarianship, identifying how white supremacy manifests in library institutional work cultures, and residency programs in academic libraries. They enjoy coffee, cats, singing, and analyzing people's word choices.

    33 min

  5. 11/08/2024

    Episode 46: Andrew Sekou Jackson on Mentorship, Perseverance, and Community

    Andrew Jackson is the Director Emeritus of Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center where he served in that role before retiring in 2017. He is also a past president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association from 2004-2006. Andrew is currently an adjunct professor at both York and Queens colleges where he has taught a combined 23 years. A published author and essayist, Andrew wrote the Foreword to the 9th and 10th Editions of The African American Almanac and Queens Notes: Facts About the Forgotten Borough of Queens, New York.  He co-edited the award-winning book, The 21st Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges, and his essay, In The Tradition: The Legacy of Cultural Messengers From Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur, was published in Phati’tude Literary Magazine.  Andrew is currently working on the Third Edition of The Handbook of Black Librarianship, due to be published in 2024.

    41 min

  6. 10/07/2024

    Episode 45: Laquanda Fields on Belonging, Leadership, and Fashion

    Laquanda M. Fields is the Fabulous Librarian – mom of two amazing daughters & three classy felines, and Ms. L to her students. Becoming a librarian was Laquanda’s childhood dream and she took a leap of faith to follow that dream three years ago. She joined Dr. Charles T. Lunsford School #19 in 2022. In just under two school years, Laquanda has earned School Library of the Year from the Rochester Regional Library Council, was named Community Partner of the Year by the Rochester Imagination Library, and a 2023 Forty Under 40 honoree by the Rochester Business Journal. In addition to fashionably spreading the love of reading, Laquanda is actively involved in her community. She’s Co-Chair of the Strong’s Play Makers Leadership Council, a graduate of the 2024 class of Leadership Rochester, and a member of the Corn Hill Arts Festival Planning Committee. She serves on the boards of the Rochester Imagination Library and the Junior League of Rochester.

    38 min

  7. 10/06/2024

    Episode 44: Dr. Miranda Belarde-Lewis on Networking, Artivism, and Teaching

    Dr. Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) is an assistant professor and the inaugural Jill and Joe McKinstry Endowed Faculty Fellow of Native North American Indigenous Knowledge at the University of Washington’s Information School. She is an independent curator who engages public scholarship by working with tribal, state, federal and international institutions and organizations to promote Native artists and their work. Belarde-Lewis holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona, an M.A. in Museology and Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington.

    49 min

  8. 10/05/2024

    Episode 43:Conrrado Saldivar on Advocacy, Leadership, and Censorship

    Conrrado Saldivar is Past President of the Wyoming Library Association and Tech Services Manager at the Natrona County Library in his hometown of Casper, WY. He received his MLIS in 2021 from the University of Washington iSchool and is a 2019 ALA Spectrum Scholar. As one of the few BIPOC librarians in Wyoming and as a leader in the Wyoming library community, he has worked to support EDI efforts in Wyoming, both for library staff and his community. In October 2023, he received the Wyoming Library Association’s Outstanding Hero/Heroine Award (alongside the Legislative Committee Chair) for his work in fighting against adverse legislation that would target library materials written by and about members of the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities.

    51 min
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Hear from librarians of color speak to the fullness of their careers including successes, challenges, and achievements. How do they do it? Join co-hosts Jamia Williams and Jamillah R. Gabriel to find out more about their #LibVoices. Please follow us on all of our social media pages!

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  • Creator
    LibVoices
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    51
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