Ep 5 - Community-Led Libraries with Jorge Cardenas

Organizing Ideas

What is community-led work in and for libraries? We got to sit down with Jorge Cardenas in Allison’s home to talk about what it means to work in libraries with a community-led focus. Jorge is a community librarian and currently manages Burnaby Public Library’s McGill branch. He is also an instructor at the University of British Columbia, where he co-taught the Community-Led Libraries class with Christie Menzo, and is now teaching it solo for the 2019-2020 academic year. Some resources mentioned in the episode: > Community-Led Libraries Toolkit: https://www.vpl.ca/sites/vpl/public/Community-Led-Libraries-Toolkit.pdf? > Public Library Leaders program, organized by the Canadian Urban Library Council: http://www.culc.ca/projects/plleaders/ Jorge can be reached at: > Twitter: @libliothecary > Email: jorge [dot] cardenas [at] ubc [dot] ca The cover art is done by our friend Andrea Lukic. Read along with the transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dRf7o8hTo1ZOhxLu8ZFWbclUPAy4X2nfqzqbYVpFyWo/edit?usp=sharing You can reach us at: > Email: organizingideaspod [at] gmail [dot] com > Twitter: @OrganizingPod > Website: https://organizingideaspod.wordpress.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/organizing-ideas/message