[Libs-Or] Fwd: [REFORMANET] New book just published by Elizabeth Martinez

[Max Macias]

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Max

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From: REFORMA President <president at reforma.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 9:34 AM
Subject: [REFORMANET] New book just published by Elizabeth Martinez
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Go and buy Elizabeth Martinez's book, Jaguar in the Library. The Story of
the First Chicana Librarian. Elizabeth Martinez is whom REFORMA National
has named its lifetime achievement award <https://www.reforma.org/laa>
after. She has done so much for REFORMA, ALA, and the entire library
profession.

Elizabeth Martinez, thank you for sharing your story with all of us!

http://latinobooks-com.3dcartstores.com/A-Jaguar-in-the-Library-By-Elizabeth-Irene-Martinez_p_285.html

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0915745445

Jaguar in the Library. The Story of the First Chicana Librarian. By
Elizabeth Irene Martinez.  ISBN 13:  978-0-915745-44-9. Library of Congress
Control Number: 2020941157. 6x9, B&W on cream paper, 150 pgs.

 It is heart-felt cogitation of a sincere Latina library administrator who
dedicated her professional life to providing services to the Hispanic
population, wherever she served. On her quest, she encounters the very
profound, individual, and structural face of discrimination and the
debasing effects of denial of information and library services to Latinos
and minorities—let them pay taxes, but don’t let in the library! On June
26, 2020, about 144 years after its founding, The American Library
Association (ALA), very likely forced by the unprecedented racial
demonstrations in the streets of America, has issued a declaration of
responsibility: "ALA takes responsibility for past racism, pledges a more
equitable association."

It is a riveting personal and intimate story of the professional trajectory
of Elizabeth Martinez.  She took the librarians’ publicly articulated
commitment to serve and provide information and library services to all,
very seriously. She risked many times her career and high-level
administrative positions to expand those services to Latinos, and
minorities, the underserved populations. She experienced the anguishes and
the blisses, the obstructions and visions, the raw insults and inspiring
moments, and, most of all, her hard work fueled by her profound
professional commitment to serving the minority populations. This book is
an inspirational as well as a didactic tale of what happens to a capable
minority female administrator when she means business and becomes a change
agent refusing to accept the discriminatory pattern of public and library
services.

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Kenny Garcia (he/him/his)
REFORMA President
president at reforma.org
REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information
Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking
P.O. Box 832, Anaheim CA 92815-0832
http://www.reforma.org/index.asp

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