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In honor of Black History Month, Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, the chief curator of the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, California, shares remarks on the past, present and future of Black librarianship. Then he is joined for a conversation on this important subject by guests Aaisha Haykal, manager of archival services at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston; Fobazi Ettarh, a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Wanda Kay Brown, the president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and the director of library services at C.G. O’Kelly Library at Winston-Salem State University; and Dr. Brian Kelly, professor at Queen’s University Belfast and the former director of the After Slavery Project. This symposium was introduced by the iSchool’s director, Dr. Anthony Chow, and was moderated by Nichole Brown, a librarian at the Oakland Public Library and the treasurer of the California Library Association. This symposium was presented in collaboration with the California Librarians Black Caucus and the SJSU iSchool Black Student Library Collective.

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