Liberatory Librarianship: Stories of Community, Connection, and Justice

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Brian W. Keith MLIS and MBA is a professor and the dean of library services at Eastern Illinois University. Previously he was associate dean and the university librarian at the University of Florida. Brian has envisioned and shaped libraries in terms of spaces services collections and partnerships. He has an extensive record of professional accomplishment and national and international scholarship and service focusing on DEAIJ. He is a past recipient of the SirsiDynixAmerican Library Association & Allied Professional Associations Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers and he was an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow.Laurie Taylor PhD is the associate university librarian for collections and discovery at the University of Connecticut Library. She was previously the senior director for library technology and digital strategies at the University of Florida and the operational lead and digital scholarship director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean. In 2018 Laurie was named Caribbean Information Professional of the Year by the Association of Caribbean University Research and Institutional Libraries.Shamin Renwick MLIS PhD FCLIP is a senior librarian II at the School of Education Library University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus and has served as director of library services at St. Georges University Grenada. She has been a librarian for more than 36 years 24 of them as an academic librarian. Renwick was awarded the ACURILEANA Star 2007 for research and publication and the ACURILEAN Medal for significant contributions to ACURIL (the Association of Caribbean University Research and Institutional Libraries). In 2012 she was named an Outstanding Graduate of the 1980s of the Department of Library and Information Science UWI Mona Campus.