Black Lives Matter.

I’ve struggled to focus on anything else over the last five weeks. Sometimes I feel knowledgeable and hopeful, and at other times I’ve struggled to articulate myself, and I feel overwhelmed. Unlearning racism personally and systemically is demanding and necessary work.
 
The Shorewood Public Library is committed to doing the work of unlearning racism, and you’ll see that in overt and subtle ways. We will continue to select materials with strong and joyful characters of color, and titles that help explore dismantling racism. We will continue to have programs that explore issues of social injustice and incorporate inclusive values. We will continue to look inward and provide learning opportunities related to unconscious biases and racial equity for staff and library trustees. We will start to regularly use tools that apply an equity lens to our existing policies and operational practices. And we’ll create space for difficult conversations that will come up as we do this essential and challenging work.

Join us,

Rachel Collins