... to lean on an asset-based exercise–imagining a positive work environment made possible through a library staffed entirely by BIPOC individuals. Design/methodology/approach Through collaborative autoethnography, the two authors interviewed one another and centered their unstructured conversations...

... awe lend to library structures that place responsibility on the individual for institutional trauma rather than rightly examining and reconstructing the environments and structures themselves. Originality/value This autoethnography presents the viewpoint of a first-generation Latinx librarian...

... and supplements this with an analysis of 1,500 records from her detailed reference log that compares roving reference results with conventional references and with reference questions as a whole. Findings Her autoethnography and data reveal that roving substantially increases the number of reference...