Radical School Librarianship: A Global Response

School librarians perform a critical and frontline role in defending EDIIF within their school communities. This comprehensive volume invites readers to learn from the experiences of school librarian leaders from around the globe in order to find inspiration, support, and strategies to continue promoting EDIIF. Each chapter addresses a particular way to take action. Bringing exemplary practices from Australia, Croatia, Ecuador, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa, Türkiye, the UK and US, chapters cover topics such as how

• to best serve immigrant and refugee students;
• to celebrate readers and reading LGBTQIA+ books and authors;
• literacy is promoted within inequitable educational landscapes;
• diversity and intellectual freedom are supported through book awards and social media; and
• librarians respond to changing social and political environments to ensure equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom in their learning communities.

Judi Moreillon has authored four professional books and earned the Scholastic Publishing Award in 2019. She taught preservice school and public library librarians for twenty-five years. She retired as an associate professor at Texas Woman’s University. For thirteen years, she served as a school librarian at all three instructional levels--elementary, junior high, and high school. She has been a fifth-grade classroom teacher, elementary school literacy coach, and district-level K-12 librarian mentor. In addition to writing and consulting, she volunteers for the Freedom to Read Foundation, serving on the Communication and Education Committees and as the American Library Association Retired Members Round Table liaison; the ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom’s Intellectual Freedom Round Table Publications and Communication Committee; and the Arizona Library Association’s Grand Canyon Reader Award Committees for Picturebooks and Nonfiction.