DEI Reads: Library Staff Reading Collection
For library staff: The Parks Library Staff Lounge has a growing number of eclectic DEI titles available on the bookshelf for staff to browse and read while taking a break, having lunch, etc. These books are marked with identifying labels that say "DEI Reads: ISU Library Staff Reading Collection - Please return book to Staff Lounge." You are welcome to take a book back to your office, but please do remember to return it to the Staff Lounge bookshelf.
In many cases these titles are also available in the library's public collections. Below is a partial list of titles available in the Staff Lounge. Enjoy!
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Call Number: ZA4230 N63 2018
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9781479837243Publication Date: 2018-02-20 -
Bad Feminist
by Call Number: HQ1421 G39x 2014
(Staff Lounge copy kindly provided by ISU Library funds)ISBN: 9780062282712Publication Date: 2014-08-05Highly recommended! Selected in Spring 2018 for the DEI Committee's library-wide book discussion group title. Collection of essays that make for a smart, entertaining, provocative, heart-breaking, and challenging read on feminism; films & romance novels; racism, sexism, coming out, and more! Join the 21 of us who have read & discussed essays from this title! See also our Bad Feminist companion LibGuide! -
Black Panther
by Call Number: PN6728 B523 C63x 2016ISBN: 9781302900533Publication Date: 2016-09-13Highly recommended! Selected in Spring 2017 as the DEI Committee's first library-wide book discussion group title! See also our Black Panther companion LibGuide! -
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
by Call Number: PL2843.P5 P35x 1995
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 0060575557Publication Date: 2004-02-03 -
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Call Number: PQ8180.17.A73 C68 1989
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9780241968628Publication Date: 1989 -
Dandarians
by Call Number: PS3568 O717 A6 2014
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9781571314581Publication Date: 2014-08-19 -
Essential guide to Spanish reading : librarians' selections / America Reads Spanish
by Call Number: PQ6033 A11 E87x 2007
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 0979606705Publication Date: 2007 -
Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
by Call Number: Not yet owned by ISU Library
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by Harrington Park Press)ISBN: 1939594308Publication Date: 2019-04-16 -
I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
by Call Number: HQ77.8 M34 A313 1995
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 1573440108Publication Date: 1995-09-01 -
Introduction to Transgender Studies
by Call Number: On order, Nov. 2019
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by Harrington Park Press)ISBN: 9781939594273Publication Date: 2019-02-05 -
Is Everyone Really Equal?
by Call Number: LC191 S38 2011
(Staff Lounge copy kindly provided by ISU Library funds)ISBN: 9780807752692Publication Date: 2011-11-04Highly recommended! This is the social justice textbook that the library's DEI Committee uses for training and for grounding our work." Based on extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the authors address the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. They provide recognizable examples, scenarios, and vignettes illustrating these concepts." Includes focus on understanding power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, ableism, racism, sexism, classism, and more. See also our Is Everyone Really Equal? companion LibGuide! -
Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
by Call Number: Available as an ebook
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 0875655203Publication Date: 2013-05-31 -
Lesbian Decadance: Representations in Art and Liberature of Fin de siècle France
by Call Number: Not yet owned by ISU Library
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by Harrington Park Press)ISBN: 9781939594075Publication Date: 2016-02-23 -
Mr. Ives' Christmas
by Call Number: PS3558.I376 M7 1995
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9780060927547Publication Date: 2003-12-23 -
My Soul Is Rested
by Call Number: E185.61 .R235 1977
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9780140067538Publication Date: 1983-09-29 -
Nanjing Requiem
by Call Number: PS3560 I6 N36 2011
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9780307379764Publication Date: 2011-10-18 -
New! Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries
by Call Number: On order, Nov 2019
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by Harrington Park Press)ISBN: 9781939594334Publication Date: 2019-09-10 -
New! Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data
by Call Number: LC1099.3 P36 2018
(Staff Lounge copy kindly provided by ISU Library funds)ISBN: 9781682532324Publication Date: 2018-10-09Highly recommended! Selected in Fall 2019 for the Library Management Team and Librarians of Color book discussions. Join the 22 of us who participated in one of these groups. See also our Race on Campus companion LibGuide! From the publisher: "A research-based analysis of racial dynamics and student life that serves as a much-needed rejoinder to scorching rhetoric." -
The Portable North American Indian Reader
by Call Number: E77 .T937 1974
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9780140150773Publication Date: 1977-10-27 -
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
by Call Number: BF723.R3 H37 2017
(Staff Lounge copy kindly donated by library staff)ISBN: 9781501856426Publication Date: 2018-01-16 -
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
by Call Number: HT1521 .D486 2018
(Staff Lounge copies (2) kindly provided by ISU Library funds)ISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018-06-26Highly recommended! Selected in Spring 2019 as the DEI Committee's library-wide book discussion group title; also read & discussed by the library management team & librarians of color (Fall 2018), and a second library-wide book discussion group in June 2019. Haven't read this important eye-opening book yet? Join the 54 of us who read & participated in one of these groups! Two copies are available in the Staff Lounge collection. See also our White Fragility companion LibGuide!
