Infuse equity into every part of your library leadership and administration, from hiring, onboarding, and retention, to personnel management, budgeting, and more. 

Learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of implicit bias, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens—to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library.

Unite marketing and outreach librarianship to build trusted relationships with your whole community.

Learn to develop targeted communications and outreach strategies to ensure that members of your community are aware of the programs and services you offer and accessing the ones they need. 

Learn best practices and new program ideas for working closely with communities that are often unsupported.

Learn the fundamentals of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and how to work in solidarity with all members of your library community -- including BIPOC, the disability community, the queer community, the undocumented and underserved.

Learn how to approach your practice, programs, and partnerships through a social emotional lens and better support yourself, colleagues, and your community.  

In this course, you’ll learn from an outstanding group of experts as they explore key concepts essential to cultivating and promoting inclusive and equitable collections.

Through this course, you’ll learn about the concrete actions library leaders are taking to help cultivate an antiracist, inclusive library culture—from examining the impacts of  implicit biases, to evaluating spaces, programs, and services and examining policies and practices through an antiracist lens —to ensure that there is a shared value of antiracism at the library.

Practical coursework, along with targeted support, will take you from theory to application, providing tools and resources that will help you to transform your library culture and services by examining them through an equity lens. 

SLJ’s School Librarian of the Year (2020) Cicely Lewis founded Read Woke, a movement and call to action to give voice to the disenfranchised in education and literacy.

For libraries to effectively meet their mission of serving the educational, informational, and entertainment needs of their communities, their collections must be diverse and inclusive, offering windows into and mirrors of the vast array of perspectives and stories that make up our world.