Liberation Librarian
Library Work
Malana currently serves as a research services librarian at the Boston Public Library. She has worked in a variety of library settings, including public, academic, special, and prison libraries. A core focus of her academic research has been digital equity, and she remains a research affiliate of the Digital Equity Research Lab of the New York Metropolitan Library Council. In 2022, she was selected as a Breaking Barriers scholarship winner, a project of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association dedicated to making a school-independent organization for Black library school students. She has worked as a grant writer and on numerous IMLS-funded projects.
Includes featured research project focusing on digital redlining in Boston.
Research assistant and editor of report on a community-based digital equity program in Detroit.
Article describing successfully funded IMLS grant, which Malana co-wrote.
Lesson plan about reentry resumes for incarcerated learners.
Landing page originally added and drafted by Malana during a library Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon that she planned.
Slides for lecture given at Brown University in spring 2022.
Video demonstration of the popular children's song.
LibGuide on solarpunk, an artistic, cultural, and political movement focused on imagining and creating hopeful, sustainable, fully accessible futures.
COVID-19 information resource for sex workers created in 2020, now archived at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.
Presentation on how to use podcasting as a research model with and for Indigenous communities.
Video edited from an oral history conducted with the head of Heaux History Project.