Everyday Advocacy: “Verbing” Diversity

Authors

  • Jenna Nemec-Loise

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.13n3.36

Abstract

The glorious Jacqueline Woodson has said, “Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”

As someone who has struggled these many moons to pinpoint what “diversity” means for libraries, I’m blown away by this definition. Only Jackie could capture the essence of such a complex idea while at the same time drawing out its intentionality and purposefulness. Diversity isn’t just something we think about. It’s something we do.

Author Biography

Jenna Nemec-Loise

Jenna Nemec-Loise is Member Content Editor, ALSC Everyday Advocacy Website and Electronic Newsletter. Everyday Advocacy empowers ALSC members to embrace their roles as library advocates by focusing on their daily efforts to serve youth and families. Each lighthearted column features easy-to-implement strategies and techniques for asserting the transformative power of libraries both within communities and beyond them. Reach her at everyday-advocacy@hotmail.com with comments and ideas for future topics.

References

Jacqueline Woodson, quoted in Claire Kirch, “BEA 2014: Jacqueline Woodson: Remembering a Brown Girl’s Childhood,” Publishers Weekly, May 30, 2014, accessed June 1, 2015, www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/62630-bea-2014-jacqueline-woodson-remembering-a-brown-girl-s-childhood.html.

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Published

2015-08-31

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2015): Fall

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