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Marigold Newsletter June 2020
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Alberta Summer Reading Club (AB SRC)
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TD Summer Reading Club (TD SRC)
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AB SRC and TD SRC Webinar
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Government of Alberta Guidance Documents
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Tips for Dealing With Angry Patrons When Your Library Reopens
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Personal Protection Equipment
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OverDrive Big Library Read
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Flipster Text-to-Speech Reader
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Diversity and Culture - Strategies for Working with Differences
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How to Look Good in Virtual Meetings
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Guidance for Online Storytimes
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June is National Indigenous History Month and it has also been an important month for the Black Lives Matter movement. The following book list contains Nonfiction titles that highlight some of the racism experienced by the authors, and suggestions for ways to combat it.
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So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
A Seattle-based writer, editor and speaker tackles the sensitive, hyper-charged racial landscape in current America, discussing the issues of privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word.
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Mamaskatch : A Cree Coming of Age
by Darrel J. McLeod
As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family's history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. But after a series of tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable, and their home life becomes chaotic. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with his sexual identity-a reckoning complicated by the repercussions of his abuse and his sibling's own gender transition. Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch-"It's a wonder!" in Cree-is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next, and an uplifting story of one individual who broke the cycle in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life.
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Seven Fallen Feathers : Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
by Tanya Talaga
Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities.
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How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X Kendi
Combines ethics, history, law, and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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This Place : 150 Years Retold
by Katherena Vermette
A graphic novel anthology depicts the last one hundred fifty years of Canadian history as seen through the eyes of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the Europeans arrived.
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Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun : Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities
by Paul Seesequasis
Grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system, Paul Seesequasis sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, mostly untold history existed alongside the official one: that of how Indigenous peoples and communities had held together during even the most difficult times. He embarked on a social media project to collect archival photos capturing everyday life in First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities from the 1920s through the 1970s. Friends and relatives of the individuals in the photographs commented online, and through this dialogue, rich histories came to light for the first time.
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I'm still here : Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity in their mission statements, many fall short of matching actions to words. Brown highlights how white middle-class evangelicalism has participated in the rise of racial hostility, and encourages the reader to confront apathy and recognize God's ongoing work in the world.
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
by Alicia Elliott
In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political.
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