Implicit bias has become an almost everyday experience for many in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities when attempting to receive quality healthcare. Women in communities of color are oftentimes the ones that suffer the most when setting out to explore options that will...

In 1938, Forest Spalding drafted the first Bill of Rights for Libraries to combat, “growing intolerance, suppression of free speech and censorship affecting the rights of minorities and individuals” (Library Bill of Rights and Freedom to Read Statement Pamphlet, n.d.). Over 80 years later,...

The field of library and information science (LIS) faces a long-standing lack of discourse on topics relating to race, racism, and whiteness, which can be attributed in part to concepts such as vocational awe and neutrality. This chapter explores whether this practice of race-avoidance has...

Being a librarian of color can be an isolating experience that can lead to burnout due to racial battle fatigue and vocational awe ( ; ). Some of the most overlooked types of academic librarians in the United States are community college librarians, due to the social and elitist cultural stigmas...

In this chapter, the author uses a framework of Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit) to examine the lingering effects of the Doctrine of Discovery. The Doctrine of Discovery is a legal principle that embodies the worldview of European Christian superiority. This worldview and legal principle...

One of the biggest controversies to take the United States by storm is book banning. School districts, students, teachers, and librarians nationwide are being affected by it, and library administrations and school boards are scrambling to figure out how to approach it. Rapidly moving government...

The knowledge organization systems that libraries use today contain the biases of their builders, but catalogers who work within these systems can mitigate the harm caused by this bias. Catalogers are frequently seen as inflexible rule-followers, subject to the organizational systems they work...