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"The Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, aims to provide a platform and space to support Latinx youth literature creators and connect them with their readers and other creators and educators."
“Museums hold all the things that people feel are valuable or important.” In the last few years, as I’ve thought more deeply about informal learning spaces, I’ve also challenged the assumption (and the marketing) that all spaces are meant for all people. How can they be, when so much has been built on stolen land, […]
I’ve been reading and listening to quite a few books lately, but not taking the time to review them. I'm taking the time today!
The library didn’t give my mother, my sister, and me our strength. But the library was a place where we could learn to unlock our power ourselves.
Taking those books home allowed me to escape the entrapment of those silent days when I could not communicate in English. I will never forget the feeling of joy upon receiving that first library card!
I remember going to the local library, getting my first library card, and piling the car with books. I couldn’t believe it—I could take them home? We didn’t have to pay for them? And I could bring them back and then get more? It was the greatest thing ever!
Tiffani Carter believes this is what libraries do: they provide space to bring people together, connecting one resource, one service, one child, with another.
It was Mrs. Márquez and Sister Rose—the librarians at PSJA High School—who answered our complaint about the lack of Mexican American authors on the shelves with a suggestion: “Perhaps you could author titles that would fill those gaps, boys.”
I'm giving you a short, purposeful list of things you can do to address challenges to intellectual freedom.
I think a lot of librarians create booklists for our users but, we forget how valuable they are to us and to our users.
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