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Professionalism + Leadership at Every Level

Management + Business Acumen

Cultural Humility, Putting Actions After Words

Monday, July 17, 2023
1:15pm – 2:15pm EDT
Location: Hynes-210
Cultural humility, coined in 1998 by healthcare professionals Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia, gives us a tool for a greater understanding of cultures that are different from our own, helping us more fully recognize and appreciate each other's unique cultural experiences, values, and beliefs while acknowledging our own, especially within historical contexts and failures of the past. Focusing on self-reflection and lifelong learning is central to incorporate multiculturalism into the work of healthcare professionals. As with the healthcare profession, librarianship is also a highly developed service profession, so is it not just as appropriate for us to practice cultural humility?

Target Audience:

Librarians in leadership positions and anyone working in a service profession.

Takeaways:

  • Participants will be able to compare the differences between cultural humility and cultural competence, which can be learned and integrated into our daily interaction with library patrons, co-workers, and institutional colleagues.
  • Participants will find a comfort level of "normalizing not knowing" while working to accept that it is not only okay not to know an answer, but that this is a necessary condition for growth, both within and outside of our library workplaces.
  • Participants will be able to develop the means for personal reflection and growth around culture in order to increase their awareness.