Angel Jewel Tucker – Keynote LIANZA Conference 2019

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Date2019-11-07EventLIANZA Conference 2019Duration0:38:05DescriptionANGEL TUCKER
Engaging your community around topics of local history, race, and equity: Weaving the Thread of Humanity with Dialogue.

How libraries engage their community around topics of local history, race, and equity can be complicated. Johnson County Librarian Angel Tucker has spent the past five years navigating this complicated landscape and learning along the way that librarians are the thread that can weave people, schools, and institutions together. A community is a beautiful tapestry cultures, customs, and races – the public library is where that tapestry is upheld, honored, and recognized. Attend this keynote with these questions in mind – can programs and services libraries offer build meaningful relationships between people of varied backgrounds? Can public libraries unearth unspoken truths and build understanding around a community’s shared history and interconnectedness? Can public libraries challenge and & shift their own organizational culture by making this work a priority? Learn how Johnson County Library in Kansas City, USA has made it a priority to nurture the collective wisdom of their community by bringing students and educators together through an initiative called Race Project KC. The initiative allows students to explore the story of structural racism; to learn vocabulary for talking about race; to build relationships with peers they might not otherwise meet; and to share their own stories as they relate to the issues.

Angel Jewel Tucker – Keynote LIANZA Conference 2019

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Angel Jewel Tucker – Keynote LIANZA Conference 2019