NCompass Live - Dec. 2, 2020 http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/ Nebraska Library Association Diversity Committee members will booktalk diverse titles and share resources for finding more reading to diversify your shelves. Attendees will be encouraged to share titles of diverse literature they have read to create a list for everyone to use. Presenters: Tim Lentz, Chair, Nebraska Library Association Diversity Committee and Community Resource Librarian, Hastings Public Library.

1. In the crucible:
Reading Diversely in 2020

2. Reading Diversely 2020
• This year, right here: BLM, Solidarity Saturdays, LGBTQ+ issues,
Disability issues
• Are book clubs enough?
• Know the history, find the roots
• Meet diverse audiences where they are
• Beyond Reading Diversely: Libraries in turbulent times

3. This year, Right here:
Black Lives Matter, Solidarity Saturdays,
LGBTQ+ issues, Disability issues

4. Juneteenth, Black Lives Matter protest: Omaha in the
news

5. Solidarity Saturdays: Safety for meatpacking plant
workers, a predominantly Latino workforce in Nebraska

6. COVID and businesses, including LGBTQ+; Libraries as
spaces after COVID

7. “When black people
are in pain, white
people just join
book clubs”
Tre Johnson, Washington Post, June 11,
2020

8. Me and White Supremacy; Layla Saad

9. So you want to talk about race; Ijeoma Oluo

10. Stamped; Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

11. History and Roots:
Dig deeper; these aren’t new problems,
and knowing history helps understand the
present

12. Teaching to Transgress; bell hooks

13. The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Alex Haley, Malcolm X

14. Why We Can’t Wait; Martin Luther King, Jr.

15. A Time for Burning; Ernie Chambers, William Youngdahl
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/a-time-for-burning/

16. Books for Diverse
Audiences
Don’t be the only one reading diversely in
2020

17. The City We Became; N. K. Jemisin

18. Kindred; Octavia Butler, John Jennings, Damian Duffy

19. Astro Girl; Ken Wilson-Max

20. Dreamers; Yuyi Morales

21. Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of
Heterosexuality; Hanne Blank

22. Actions for Diversity
Beyond Reading Diversely:

23. Libraries in turbulent times: 2020 and
beyond
• This year, right here: Know your community. BLM, Solidarity Saturdays,
LGBTQ+ issues, Disability issues
• Are book clubs enough? No, but they’re a start. Do the reading.
• Prepare yourself: have a plan, but be ready to adapt
• Recruit in your communities; build a pipeline
• Join the Diversity Committee of the Nebraska Library Association