Heather Slania

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About

I am a cisgender, queer, white woman, from working-class suburban Chicago, a first-generation college student, and a practitioner in libraries rather than an academic. I have worked exclusively in US academic and museum libraries, having held library director positions for the past 10 years. I began my current position at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland in 2016.

I love systems thinking; diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the workplace; improving work and power relationships.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Master of Library Science

Specialization: Archives, Records, and Information Management

2007

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Bachelor of Science in Speech

Majors: Performance Studies; Art Theory & Practice

2000

Blog Posts

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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Slania, H. (2021). Managing Without Capitalism: Transforming Library Leadership in Service of Anti-Racism, Inclusion, and Equity. New Librarianship Symposia Series. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/newlibrarianshipsymposia/newlibrarianshipsymposia/edi/7/

Slania, H. (2013). Online Art Ephemera: Web Archiving at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Art Documentation. 32:1, 112-126.
*Worldwide Books Award for Publications Honorable Mention 2014

Gibbs, D., Boettcher, J., Hollingsworth, J., and Slania, H. (2012). Assessing the Research Needs of Graduate Students at Georgetown University. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 38:5, 268-276.

Other Publications

Slania, H. and Ferretti, J. (2018). Knowledge/Community. Velocity. 1:3, p.27.

Slania, H. (2016). Womanimal: Zine Art by Caroline Paquita. Women in the Arts. Winter/Spring 2016, 24-27.

Slania, H. (2015). Who’s Afraid of Vanessa Bell?: Vanessa Bell’s Hogarth Press Designs. Women in the Arts. Fall 2015, 24-25.

Slania, H. (2015). Review of Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars, by Catherine Speck. ARLIS/NA Reviews. March 2015.

Slania, H. (2014). The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová. Women in the Arts. Fall 2014, 24-15.

Slania, H. (2012). Mamacita Linda: Letters between Frida Kahlo and her Mother. Women in the Arts. Summer 2012, 6-7.

Memberships

ARLIS/NA

Library Director

MICA