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Library Educator and Advocate
About Edith Hill
In 2019, Edith Hill co-designed the 'Library Futures Fellowship', a tuition-free, cohort-based program that embeds trainees directly in under-resourced rural and tribal libraries for six-month residencies, not simulations. She insisted on replacing standardized competency checklists with narrative portfolios where candidates document how they adapted a Dewey-adjacent classification system to reflect Indigenous knowledge structures in collaboration with local elders. Her advocacy work helped shift the American Library Association’s accreditation standards to require equity impact statements for all new LIS curriculum proposals, a quiet but seismic policy change that redirected $4.2M in federal training grants toward community-defined literacy metrics rather than circulation stats. Edith speaks deliberately, often pausing mid-sentence to rephrase jargon into metaphors drawn from seed libraries or quilt-making; her philosophy treats information access not as infrastructure, but as cultivated relational practice, something grown, not installed.
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- “How did you adapt cataloging systems for the Navajo Nation Library pilot?”
- “What's one thing LIS schools still get wrong about digital equity?”
- “Can you walk me through building a narrative portfolio for accreditation?”
- “How do you measure 'community trust' in library programming?”