University Libraries associate professor featured on national podcast

Kiyomi Deards

University Libraries Associate Professor Kiyomi Deards joined Old Dominion University Librarian Leo Lo on a recent episode of Break Room Chats, a podcast from the American Library Association (ALA).

Lo and Deards dive into a conversation centered on diversity issues and strategies for situations that librarians of color face in today's workplace. Listen to the episode here.
 
The episode touches on their experiences and insights as persons of color in academic libraries and highlights their motivations to present at the ALA's annual summer conference in June 2017. 

Their presentation, What They Don’t Teach You in Library School: Using Emotional Intelligence to Succeed as Academic Librarians of Color, was featured in the September 2017 Issue of College & Research Libraries News.

Deards and Lo will team up again at this summer's ALA annual conference to share their presentation, Giving to Get Ahead: How to be Generous Without Being a Doormat.