Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice in Public Libraries

From YouTube: "Katie Dover-Taylor (she/her/hers) is currently a Librarian II at the William P. Faust Public Library in Westland, Michigan, where she provides reference, readers advisory, and technology assistance, coordinates technology training for adult learners, and serves as the chair of the library’s staff union. Over the past several years, Katie has approached social justice work in libraries through both community organizing and scholarship. In 2015, she was a founding co-coordinator of the Radical Libraries, Archives & Museums Track at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit. In 2017, she co-authored a chapter on white anti-racist librarianship for the book Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science. She is a member of the PLA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice." You can watch Katie's presentation from a couple years ago, below. 

Katie also has a chapter on White Anti-Racist Librarianship in the book Topographies of Whiteness.