The WestPac Grants and Awards Committee and the WestPac Board are delighted announce that WestPac will be offering three $500 travel grants to attend the AALL Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, in July. We strongly encourage you to apply – no letters of recommendation are required!
The form can be found HERE.
The deadline for applications is Friday, May 6. Please email Hilary Hardcastle if you have any questions!
Please join us on Wednesday, December 1, at 11 a.m. PT (12 p.m. MT, 1 p.m. CT, 2 p.m. ET) for a discussion with Meredith Farkas about Building a Better Collective Future with Slow Librarianship, the perfect antidote when achievement, productivity, and external validation have left you hollow and yearning for more reflection, collaboration, and inclusion (see attached flyer). Slow librarianship offers a path to a radical new future with more meaningful values-driven work and relationships, and thankfully Meredith has the map.
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Passcode: slowdown
Meredith's Biography: Meredith Farkas (she/her) is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College, a perpetual beginner, and a recovering workaholic. From 2007-2021, she wrote the “In Practice” column for American Libraries, focusing on accessible technologies, collaboration, values-driven work, antiracism, and reflective practice. Meredith was honored in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology, and in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award.
Please join us on Wednesday, November 10, at 9 a.m. PT (10 a.m. MT, 11 a.m. CT, 12 p.m. ET), for a fascinating discussion with editors and contributors Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Raquel J. Gabriel, Suzanne Harrington-Steppen, Anna Russell, and Genevieve B. Tung about the collection of essays Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom (see also attachment). The race, economic status, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or physical or mental abilities of the litigants in case books often go unexamined, so it is incredibly important that a collection such as this offers reflections, practical advice, and specific instruction on how to integrate DEI issues into the first-year doctrinal courses so faculty and librarians can equip law students with the empathy and awareness they need to fight prejudice and inequality and the current laws that perpetuate both.
You can read the book’s Table of Contents, Foreword, and Introduction, and the first three essays, including those by editors Nicole P. Dyszlewski and Genevieve B. Tung, on Amazon for free via the Look Inside feature. Editor profiles are HERE and the book’s website is HERE.
We look forward to seeing everyone!
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Passcode: diversity
We look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday, October 13, at 12 p.m. PT (1 p.m. MT, 2 p.m. CT, 3 p.m. ET) for the start of WestPac’s Fall 2021 Education Series (see attached flyer).
First up is presenter Chris Long from the University of Colorado’s Norlin Library. Chris will provide an update about what has happened in the intervening years since a group of Dartmouth College librarians and students tried to change the Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal aliens” (as documented in the film, Change the Subject). Chris will also describe how his library has implemented alternate subject headings to replace “Illegal aliens” in the library’s catalog.
Viewing the Change the Subject documentary in advance is recommended, but not essential. You can view the documentary here.
Let’s get to know Chris a little. Chris Long is Director of the Resource Description Services Team at the University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries. He was co-chair of ALA’s Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) from 2018-19. Prior to his arrival in Colorado, he served as Catalog Librarian for 21 years at the Ruth Lilly Law Library, at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and in 2010 was chair of TS-SIS.
The Zoom link for Chris’s presentation is here and in the flyer: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/93550625159
passcode: change
Happy first day of autumn. In celebration of layered clothing and crisp air, please mark your calendars for WestPac’s virtual Fall 2021 Education Series (see flyer below).
The scheduled lineup includes the following:
Registration details, Zoom information, and presenter biographies for each program are forthcoming.
Mahalo, Cory