Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions

Sarah R. Kostelecky is the Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication (DISC) for University of New Mexico Libraries. Her research focuses on outreach efforts to underrepresented communities, diversity in academic libraries and library collections, and Native American language resources. Previously at UNM, Sarah has served as the Education Librarian and Access Services Librarian in the Indigenous Nations Library Program (INLP). She earned both her MA in Information Resources and Library Science and BA in Sociology from the University of Arizona. Prior to working at UNM Libraries, Sarah was the Library Director at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM, the premiere educational institution for contemporary Native American arts and cultures. Along with David A. Hurley and Paulita Aguilar, she co-edited “Sharing Knowledge and Smashing Stereotypes: Representing Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous Realities in Library Collections,” a special double issue of the journal Collection Management. Sarah has enjoyed working in a variety of libraries including university, public, tribal college, and museum. She is a member of Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico.Lori Townsend is the Learning Services Coordinator and Engineering Librarian for the University of New Mexico Libraries. Her research interests include threshold concepts and information literacy, academic librarians of color and cultural humility. Lori holds a BA in history from the University of New Mexico and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Before coming to UNM, she worked as the Electronic Collections Librarian at California State University, East Bay from 2005-2010. She is co-author, along with Amy R. Hofer and Silvia Lin Hanick, of the book Transforming Information Literacy Instruction: Threshold Concepts in Theory and Practice (Libraries Unlimited, 2018); she and Silvia Lin Hanick are Series Editors for the just-launched Libraries Unlimited Series on Teaching Information Literacy Today. Lori is a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley.David A. Hurley is the Web and Discovery Librarian for the University Libraries. In addition to cultural humility, he writes and presents on search, reference services, and information literacy. He was previously the director of the Diné College libraries on the Navajo Nation, chief of the library development bureau at the New Mexico State Library, and branch and digital services manager for the public library of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. With Sarah R. Kostelecky and Paulita Aguilar, David co-edited “Sharing Knowledge and Smashing Stereotypes: Representing Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous Realities in Library Collections,” a special double issue of the journal Collection Management.

• Part I Origins1 “Time Is a Ship That Never Casts Anchor”: Indigenous Adages in Promoting Cultural HumilityLoriene Roy and Leisa Moorhouse2 Redressing Power Imbalances in Librarianship Using Cultural Humility: A Perspective from Two Black Librarians Twanna Hodge and Xan Goodman3 Getting Past “Approachability”: What Cultural Humility Brings to Library and Information EducationLilliana Montoya and Sarah PolkinghornePart II Reflective Practice4 Reflections on Culturally Humble Practice in Bibliography, Scholarship, and Readers’ Advisory: A Case StudyMichael Mungin5 Cultural Humility and Evaluating Books for Young ReadersSilvia Lin Hanick and Kelsey Keyes6 Learn, Act, Connect: Thriving as an International Librarian and Global CitizenMeggan Houlihan, Amanda Click, and Dina Meky7 Cultural Humility in Instruction on Health Outreach Projects: Revising a Course on the Grant-Writing ProcessJarrod IrwinPart III Community8 Embedding Diné Culture in Individual and Institutional Cultural Humility Practices: A View from the Tribal College LibraryRhiannon Sorrell9 Beyond Late Fees: Eliminating Access Barriers for EveryoneCarrie Valdes10 Small Changes Make an Impact: How Access and Metadata Services Teams Address Cultural HumilityMelanie Bopp, Tricia Mackenzie, and Kimberley A. EdwardsPart IV Hopeful Visions11 Knowing (un)Knowings: Cultural Humility, the Other(s), and Theories of ChangeNicholae Cline and Jorge R. López-McKnight 12 Cultural Humility: A Journey to Radical Self-Love Naghem Swade and Daniyom “Dani” Bekele