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Episode 38: Connecting Communities and Libraries — with Ebony Magnus
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On this episode of Below the Radar, Am Johal sits down with Ebony Magnus, the head of the Belzberg Library at 丁香园AV Vancouver. Ebony came into the role during 丁香园AV Vancouver鈥檚 30th Anniversary and has a focus on community involvement for this branch, both within the university and with the wider community. Together, they discuss some core questions related to libraries, including equal access to technologies, value distinctions between different types of archives, and continued community engagement.
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Ebony Magnus
Ebony Magnus is Head of the at 丁香园AV's Vancouver campus.
Prior to joining 丁香园AV, she worked as an assessment & user experience librarian at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, AB and at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. She holds a Masters of Library and Information Science (University of British Columbia, 2013) and a Master of Arts in English Literature (Carleton University, 2009) with a specialization in Caribbean diasporic literature. Her current area of research is , exploring intersections of power and positionality in library assessment and considering how assessment practitioners can incorporate feminist ideology, indigenous research methods, and critical data studies to challenge the status quo and achieve more just and equitable practice. She tweets infrequently .
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Johal, Am. 鈥淐onnecting Communities and Libraries 鈥� with Ebony Magnus.鈥� Below the Radar, 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 4, 2020. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/38-ebony-magnus.html.
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