Antiracism: A Guide to Stories, Perspectives and Connections
During this time of collective truth-seeking, it feels like we’re drinking from a firehose of information. For this time and for every time, NOVA Libraries has compiled a guide of antiracism resources for the NOVA community. In this place and in every place, Black stories matter, and Black perspectives matter, because Black lives matter.
Find it online here: Antiracism: A Guide to Stories, Perspectives, and Connections
This guide includes links to selected ebooks (including audiobooks), articles, videos and podcasts, as well as local (Northern Virginia–based) antiracist groups to support and pre-assembled “information kits” to help us:
- identify racism in ourselves and in our institutions;
- reach out to local government officials, police forces and private organizations; and
- engage with students in our classes and children in our homes.
The resources linked in this guide are only a fraction of what the library can offer. In addition to the conversations you’re having with colleagues, friends, family and local leadership, please reach out to any NOVA librarian at any time to help you find further resources, or try searching the library databases on your own. The guide includes links to do both.
NOVA Librarians are committed to being antiracist and inclusive in our content purchases, our class instruction and our individual reference services. Read our Library Policies here. The policies include:
- A commitment to helping students gain confidence in identifying, finding and using information effectively and ethically.
- Valuing and respecting our students, their diversity, their goals and their previous experiences.
- Encouraging critical thinking skills and continuous learning beyond the academic setting.
- A commitment to ongoing assessment of the instruction program.
Let’s all commit to ongoing assessment of what we think we know and what we still have to learn from each other.
Eliza Selander is a P-14 librarian at the Loudoun Campus. Send feedback and questions to eselander@nvcc.edu.
Special thanks to contributors Stacy Arth, Monique Clark, Sarah Crowell, Elizabeth Dellavedova, Paula DeRoy, Chrystie Greges, Diane Kearney, Barbie Keiser, Anne Lilly, Melanie Medina, Kirsten Mentzer, Jonnetta Moiso and Janet Oberla.