How We Work Better Now
Registration is now open for the new Community School Course, “How We Work Better Now: a History of Librarian Professionalization
This course will study a snapshot of the histories of academic librarians, focusing on the 1950s-1970s towards asking what is the professionalization of librarianship, and why did it happen? For who did it happen? How does it affect today’s profession? Course participants will cultivate critical approaches to the past and present issues, politics, and commitment of professionalization — that is, this is a political education project and aims to connect and realize our freedom dreams.
This five-week, synchronous course starting August 1 is open to the public and limited to 20 people.
Workshop Schedule
Thursdays in August, 90 minutes
*tentative time is 1pm PT - 2:30pm PT (3pm ET-4:30pm ET), but flexible based on registrants
August 1, 2024: Graduate School Education for librarians and its intention / cultural studies / Primary document: 1961 Intro to Librarianship syllabus / framework: university as state
August 8, 2024: The Fight for Faculty Status in the 1960s / critical whiteness studies / Primary document: CLA resignation letter / framework: racialized organizations
August 15, 2024: Area/Ethnic Studies Librarianship / relational race studies / Primary document: Area Studies conference papers / framework: relational race
August 22, 2024: Federal Management in Libraries in the 1970s / critical labor studies / Primary document: Management Review And Analysis Program / framework: Braverman’s labor analysis
August 29, 2024: Automation in Libraries for/of Librarians / surveillance studies /Primary document: automation plan / framework: abolition in libraries