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JUNE 2017 PREVIEW

Fighting for our Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian
Communities in Today's Hate-fueled Climate

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n the months since the November presidential election, there has been a sharp
rise in the incidents of bias and harassment of immigrants and individuals from
Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Arab, and South Asian
communities. State-sanctioned targeting, such
as government policies that aim at people of
color with Muslim bans and increased surveillance, walls to keep Mexicans out, and raids
on immigrant communities, heighten the
climate of hate violence. In February 2017,
this racially motivated hate left one Indian
American engineer dead and the other in
the hospital with severe wounds. How can
we raise our voices to challenge hate violence
and work towards respecting people in all of
their humanity?
The Asian Pacific American Librarians
Association (APALA), along with the Social
Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), the
Ethnic and Multicultural Information Ex-

change Round Table (EMIERT), and the ALA
Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach
Services (ALA-ODLOS) invite you to join us
as we present two programs at ALA Annual
Conference & Exhibition that feature activist,
author, and civil rights lawyer Deepa Iyer.
Iyer's book, We Too Sing America: South
Asian, Muslim, Arab and Sikh Communities
Shape Our Multiracial Future, has won multiple awards including the American Book
Award from the Beyond Columbus Foundation, is an ALA Booklist selection for the 'Top
10 Multicultural Non-Fiction Books of the
Year' and a 2016 staff pick from TeachingTolerance.org. Library Journal described it as
"[A] riveting book ...A welcome addition to
the growing literature of race, ethnicity, and
religion from the perspectives of immigrant
groups within the United States."
The APALA President's Program: Rising
Up: South Asian, Muslim, Arab, and Sikh

Janice Rice to Deliver Coleman Outreach Lecture

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anice Rice, retired Outreach Coordinator at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Libraries will
deliver the 2017 Jean E. Coleman Library
Outreach Lecture at the American Library
Association's (ALA) Annual Conference
and Exhibition in Chicago. Presented by
the ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and
Outreach Services (ODLOS), the 2017
Lecture will take place on Monday, June
26 from 8:30 -10:00 a.m. in room W184
in McCormick Place West.
Rice retired from the University of Wisconsin following a distinguished 36-year
career and a long record of commitment
to improving diversity issues in the University of Wisconsin General Library System
and the library profession through active
participation in the Wisconsin Library
Association, the Association of College
& Research Libraries, the ALA Ethnic
and Multicultural Information Exchange
Round Table, and the American Indian

Library Association.
For her efforts, Rice has received several
awards, including the UW-Madison and
UW-System Outstanding Woman of Color
in Education Award in 2009 and the Distinguished Service Award from the American
Indian Library Association in 2012.
"Janice's career embodies the core values
and aspirations of our profession," said
Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada, Chair
of the ODLOS Advisory Committee,
which extended the invitation to Rice.
"Her hard work helped to make libraries
and librarianship more equitable and accessible for all."
The lecture series honors Dr. Jean E.
Coleman, the first director of the ALA
Office for Literacy and Outreach Services
(now the Office for Diversity, Literacy,
and Outreach Services) for her leadership
in focusing the Association's attention on
issues affecting traditionally underserved
and underrepresented people in libraries.

'FUN-Raising: Big and Small Ideas on Ways to Raise
Funds, Friends, and Have Fun Along the Way'

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nited for Libraries  and LLAMA
will present "FUN-Raising: Big and
Small Ideas on Ways to Raise Funds,
Friends, and Have Fun Along the Way" from
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 25 at McCormick Place West, W178b.
Fundraising doesn't have to be onerous!
A panel of speakers will talk about fun and
innovative ways to raise funds for your library
without volunteer burnout. Hear about ideas
for big and small libraries, Friends Groups,
and Foundations, and new trends in non-

profit and library fundraising. Speakers will
include:
Dwain Teague, director of development,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
chair of LLAMA, FRFDS
Charity Tyler, executive director, Cedar
Rapids (Iowa) Public Library Foundation
Peter Pearson, principal consultant, Library Strategies
This program is presented by United
for Libraries' Annual Conference Program
Committee.

Check out the ALA Lounge

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top by the ALA Lounge - brought
to you by ALA Membership - where
you can learn how joining ALA can
enhance your career, connect with colleagues,
and get information to help you improve
library services to your community. ALA
staff and Ambassadors will be on hand,
ready to help answer your questions about
your membership, the conference, the public
awareness campaign Libraries Transform™,

ALA's strategic directions, and the many
things happening at ALA.
New at the Lounge this year is "Meet
Your ALA." We'll have representatives in the
ALA Lounge from some of our acronyms
rotating every few hours, doing short "meet
& greets" about their division, roundtable,
or office! "Meet Your ALA" will be open
throughout the conference during regular
ALA Lounge hours.

Communities Reshape America on Saturday,
June 24 from 10:30 - 12:00 p.m. in McCormick Place, W184bc will look at the rise in in
xenophobia, racial anxiety and Islamophobia
in the United States and examine how Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian communities
are on the frontlines of this backlash. Iyer,
currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for
Social Inclusion, will discuss the implications
of the domestic war on terror and the power
of storytelling as a means of resistance and
solidarity. A book signing will follow the talk.
On Sunday, June 25, from 8:30 - 10:00
a.m., in McCormick Place, W183b, APALA
will present an interactive workshop "Solidarity in Action: Combating Xenophobia and
Islamophobia" Iyer. Attendees will gain tools to
support multicultural communities, including
refugees and immigrants, and will learn how
xenophobia supports American nationalism.
Iyer stated that by raising our voices we can

"connect deeply with other communities of
color, critically analyze government policies
and be ready to confront Islamophobia, antiimmigrant bias, and anti-black racism, both
within and outside our communities."
She believes that "all Americans must play
a role, whether this means intervening when
peers use racist and xenophobic language,
reaching out to neighbors and co-workers
from different backgrounds, or demanding
inclusive and equitable policies from school
boards and city councils. These are the actions
that will go much further than mere words to
curb hate violence."
Iyer is the former Executive Director of
South Asian Americans Leading Together
(SAALT), has served as a civil rights lawyer at
the U.S. Department of Justice in the wake
of 9/11, and was the Activist in Residence at
the Asian American Studies Program at the
University of Maryland.

SRRT, SustainRT, AILA, and APALA
Welcome Bill McKibben

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cclaimed environgeneral audience about climentalist, activist,
mate change and which has
and author Bill
appeared in 24 languages. He
McKibben will be speaking
is a founder of 350.org, the
at the American Library Asfirst planet-wide, grassroots
sociation 2017 Annual Meetclimate change movement,
ing & Exhibition in Chicago
which has organized twenty
on Saturday, June 24 from
thousand rallies around the
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in an event
world in every country save
co-sponsored by ALA's Social
North Korea, spearheaded
Responsibilities (SRRT) and
the resistance to the Keystone
Sustainability (SustainRT)
Pipeline, and launched the
Round Tables, the Asian/
fast-growing fossil fuel divestPacific American Librarians Bill McKibben
ment movement.
Association (APALA), and
The Schumann Distinthe American Indian Library Association guished Scholar in Environmental Studies
(AILA). The title of McKibben's talk will be at Middlebury College and a fellow of the
"Imagining a World That Works - In Time American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
to Prevent a World that Doesn't."
McKibben was the 2013 winner of the
Named by the Boston Globe as "probably Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize,
America's most important environmentalist," and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges
McKibben has written over a dozen books and universities. Foreign Policy named him
including his 1989 book, The End of Nature, to their inaugural list of the world's 100 most
which is regarded as the first book for a important global thinkers.

Leaders Wanted:
Building Diversity in LIS Leadership

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ultivating a diverse workforce is
important, but librarians of color
in LIS education, research, and
executive-level administration are underrepresented. To address this need, the ALA
Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach
Services (ODLOS) is sponsoring its 10th
annual recruitment event geared toward
increasing diversity in LIS leadership and
research through doctoral programs during
the ALA Annual Conference. Held Saturday, June 24, this event will include a panel
discussion from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. and a
doctoral options fair from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00
p.m. both held in the Empire Room at the
Palmer House Hilton.
The event will kick off with "Fearless
Questions and Fierce Conversations: Recruiting and Retaining LIS Doctoral Students of Color," featuring a panel of current

doctoral students who will address various
aspects of the Ph.D. process, including ally
networks, safe spaces, and fit in a doctoral
program.
 Immediately following the panel will be
"Leaders Wanted," a doctoral options fair
featuring representatives from over 20 LIS
doctoral programs.
Attendance is open to all attendees of
ALA Annual Conference. For more information, please visit www.alaannual.org.

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