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Working out Loud: Critical Reflection on the Next Normal

October 16, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

Please join us on Friday October 16, 2020 “Working out Loud: Critical Reflections on the Next Normal”. The day will start with a keynote by Fobazi Ettarh and Eamon Tewell followed by a series of discussions based on pre recorded presentations on how library workers have reflected on, revised, and reimagined, and continue to reimagine, our values, ideologies, procedures, and practices.

Registration is free. Donations are welcome and will go towards organizing future events. We look forward to seeing you there.

Schedule

10:00 – 11:30 a.m. – Welcome and Keynote
Keynote Dialogue with Fobazi Ettarh and Eamon Tewell

Fobazi M. Ettarh is currently the Undergraduate Success Librarian at Rutgers Newark. A school librarian by training, she specializes in information literacy instruction, K-12 pedagogy, and co-curricular outreach. Her research focuses on the decolonization of white supremacy in librarianship. She is the creator of the open-access video game Killing Me Softly: A Game About Microaggressions, which leads the user through the personal and professional effects of ongoing microaggressions. Recently, she coined and defined the concept of vocational awe, as seen in the article Vocational Awe: The Lies We Tell Ourselves. She is a 2020 Library Journal Mover And Shaker and author of the blog WTF is a Radical Librarian? which examines the intersections of librarianship, labor, identity and diversity.

Eamon Tewell (he/him/his) is Head of Research Support & Outreach for Columbia University’s Science, Engineering, and Social Science Libraries. Eamon has published and presented on the topics of critical information literacy, library instruction, critical reference practice, and questioning narratives of grit and resilience in libraries. You can find Eamon on Twitter at @eamontewell.