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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources
Core's Diversity and Inclusion Committee is committed to supporting libraries in incorporating the tenets of anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion into day-to-day library operations and Core committee work. With this goal in mind, the committee has compiled a sampling of free resources and tools explicitly related to assessment, building & operations, leadership & management, metadata & collections, and technology. It includes resources on training, outreach, recruitment and employment, grants and scholarships, and organizations. We welcome suggestions for resources to be added to the list.
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources
Considering the MLS - David James Hudson
Considering the MLS - David James Hudson
The following text was written by Baharak Yousefi, Ebony Magnus, Yoonhee Lee, and me. It was originally sent as a response to a list-serv discussion…
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Considering the MLS - David James Hudson
Doing a YA Collection Diversity Audit: Resources and Sources (Part 3)
Doing a YA Collection Diversity Audit: Resources and Sources (Part 3)
In this final post on doing my diversity audit, I just wanted to share my sources and resources with you. It’s also available in the PDF outline of my process, but since these are clickable links you may prefer to access them this way. Also, if you know of additional book lists or titles that […]
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Doing a YA Collection Diversity Audit: Resources and Sources (Part 3)
Collecting for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Best Practices for Virginia Libraries
Collecting for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Best Practices for Virginia Libraries
Collecting for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Best Practices for Virginia Libraries presents an overview for auditing library collections, from selection and cataloging to policy and community engagement statements. Developed in concert with public, school, and academic libraries, appendices support all library types.
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Collecting for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Best Practices for Virginia Libraries
Conversations That Matter: Engaging Library Employees in DEI and Cultural Humility Reflection
Conversations That Matter: Engaging Library Employees in DEI and Cultural Humility Reflection
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs subcommittee at University of North Carolina (UNC) Charlotte’s Atkins library formed in 2019 and created a series of DEI-themed staff development programming to engage library employees. The programs, which included facilitated discussions, short presentations at staff meetings, and interaction with video or article content, were all intended to foster a culture of reflection and awareness. To accommodate changing necessities of virtual and in person work environments, the subcommittee transitioned their work to be applicable both online and in person with an educational hub to promote cultural humility practices. The subcommittee began assessing the results of this programming in an informal process and laid groundwork for a more formalized assessment to inform their future DEI work.
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Conversations That Matter: Engaging Library Employees in DEI and Cultural Humility Reflection
Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours | CNN
Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours | CNN
A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours, according to an order filed Thursday.
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Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours | CNN
How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues
How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues
Research suggests that the relationship between Black employees and their employing organizations is, at best, a tenuous one. Black employees — at all levels — feel that they have not been adequately heard, understood, or granted opportunities to the same extent as their white peers. The author has devised a framework to help people from different backgrounds build stronger relationships in the workplace. Known by the acronym LEAP, the framework encourages company leaders — particularly people managers — to become better allies by: Listening and learning from your Black colleagues’ experience; Engaging with your Black colleagues in racially diverse and casual settings; Asking your Black colleagues about their work and goals; and Providing your Black colleagues with opportunities, suggestions, encouragement, and general support.
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How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues
Empower, Provide, Engage | American Libraries Magazine
Empower, Provide, Engage | American Libraries Magazine
Recent years have seen a resurgence in widespread activism throughout the country. Librarian's Library columnist Allison Escoto suggests helpful resources for librarians seeking to understand—in both theory and practice—the role of libraries in a time of increased social activism.
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Empower, Provide, Engage | American Libraries Magazine
Boley Law Library: Lewis and Clark Protest Resources: Home
Boley Law Library: Lewis and Clark Protest Resources: Home
Practical and academic support for protestors within the L&C community and beyond. Resources for Oregon and national protests. Resources include legal information, bail, protest protection, groups, research guides, books, non fiction and fiction, movies, forums, and a safe space for students to discuss lived experiences.
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Boley Law Library: Lewis and Clark Protest Resources: Home
Banned Books Week: Protecting the Right to Read - HeinOnline Blog
Banned Books Week: Protecting the Right to Read - HeinOnline Blog
This week marks Banned Books Week, celebrated annually at the end of September to honor our freedom to read and the importance of free access to information, whether or not we personally agree with it. Join us as we explore the history of banned books.
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Banned Books Week: Protecting the Right to Read - HeinOnline Blog
Topographies of whiteness : mapping whiteness in library and information science - Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (Editor)
Topographies of whiteness : mapping whiteness in library and information science - Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (Editor)
Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, and others who draw from a variety of theoretical approaches to name, problematize, and ultimately fissures whiteness at work. Contributors not only provide critical accounts of the histories of whiteness - particularly as they have shaped libraries and archives in higher education - but also interrogate current formations, from the policing of people of color in library spaces to imagined LIS futures. This volume also considers possibilities for challenging oppressive legacies and charting a new course towards anti-racist librarianship, whether in the classroom, at the reference desk, or elsewhere. -- from back cover.
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Topographies of whiteness : mapping whiteness in library and information science - Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (Editor)
Teaching for justice : implementing social justice in the LIS classroom - Nicole A. Cooke (Editor)
Teaching for justice : implementing social justice in the LIS classroom - Nicole A. Cooke (Editor)
Borne of a professional development workshop, Teaching for Justice highlights the commitment and efforts of LIS faculty and instructors who feature social justice theory and strategies in their courses and classroom practices. This book is geared towards LIS instructors who have begun to incorporate social justice into their course content, as well as those who are interested in learning more about how to address social justice in their classrooms. Chapters provide a pedagogical foundation and motivation for teaching social justice in LIS as a stand alone course or as a theme integrated within topical courses that seemingly "have no relationship" to such issues. The experiences and reflections of chapter contributors will prepare readers with strong arguments for the inclusion of social justice in their LIS classroom, curriculum, and school policies, provide an array of practical techniques intended to secure such inclusion, and a instill a sense of confidence for advocating for the incorporation of social justice as a mainstay of LIS education.
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Teaching for justice : implementing social justice in the LIS classroom - Nicole A. Cooke (Editor)
Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship - Karen P. Nicholson (Volume Editor); Maura Seale (Volume Editor)
Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship - Karen P. Nicholson (Volume Editor); Maura Seale (Volume Editor)
Over the past fifteen years, librarians have increasingly looked to theory as a means to destabilize normative discourses and practices within LIS, to engage in inclusive and non-authoritarian pedagogies, and to organize for social justice. "Critlib," short for "critical librarianship," is variously used to refer to a growing body of scholarship, an intellectual or activist movement within librarianship, an online community that occasionally organizes in-person meetings, and an informal Twitter discussion space active since 2014, identified by the #critlib hashtag. Critlib "aims to engage in discussion about critical perspectives on library practice" but it also seeks to bring "social justice principles into our work in libraries" (http: //critlib.org/about/). The role of theory within librarianship in general, and critical librarianship more specifically, has emerged as a site of tension within the profession. In spite of an avowedly activist and social justice-oriented agenda, critlib--as an online discussion space at least--has come under fire from some for being inaccessible, exclusionary, elitist, and disconnected from the practice of librarianship, empirical scholarship, and on-the-ground organizing for socioeconomic and political change. At the same time, critical librarianship may be becoming institutionalized, as seen in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, the January 2015 editorial in College and Research Libraries that specifically solicited articles using critical theory or humanistic approaches, and the publication of several critical librarianship monographs by the Association of College and Research Libraries. This book features original research, reflective essays and conversations, and dialogues that consider the relationships between theory, practice, and critical librarianship through the lenses of the histories of librarianship and critical librarianship, intellectual and activist communities, professional practices, information literacy, library technologies, library education, specific theoretical approaches, and underexplored epistemologies and ways of knowing. Karen Nicholson is Manager, Information Literacy, at the University of Guelph, and a PhD candidate (LIS) at Western University, both in Ontario. Her research interests include information literacy and critical university studies. Maura Seale is History Librarian at the University of Michigan and was previously Collections, Research, and Instruction Librarian at Georgetown University. She received an MA in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and an MSI from the University of Michigan. She welcomes comments and can be found on Twitter at @mauraseale.
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Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship - Karen P. Nicholson (Volume Editor); Maura Seale (Volume Editor)
New librarianship field guide - R. David Lankes
New librarianship field guide - R. David Lankes
This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way. The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities -- students, faculty, scholars, law firms -- in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library.
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New librarianship field guide - R. David Lankes
Navigating difficult moments in teaching diversity and social justice - Mary E. Kite (Editor); Kim A. Case (Editor); Wendy R. Williams (Editor)
Navigating difficult moments in teaching diversity and social justice - Mary E. Kite (Editor); Kim A. Case (Editor); Wendy R. Williams (Editor)
"This essential resource helps educators tackle common and challenging dilemmas that arise in today's classroom-such as diversity, privilege, and intersectionality. This book examines common issues educators face when teaching social justice and diversity-related courses and offers best practices for addressing them. Contributors discuss the many roles instructors play, inside and outside of college and university classrooms, for example, in handling personal threats, responsibly incorporating current events into classroom discussion, navigating their own stigmatized or privileged identities, dealing with bias in teaching evaluations, and engaging in self-care"--
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Navigating difficult moments in teaching diversity and social justice - Mary E. Kite (Editor); Kim A. Case (Editor); Wendy R. Williams (Editor)
Narratives of (dis)engagement : exploring Black and African American students' experiences in libraries - Amanda L. Folk; Tracey Overbey
Narratives of (dis)engagement : exploring Black and African American students' experiences in libraries - Amanda L. Folk; Tracey Overbey
"In this report, the authors introduce the findings of a research study that explores Black and African American students' experiences with libraries, examining the role that race has played in these students' library experiences to identify potential opportunities for libraries to better meet the needs of these users"--
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Narratives of (dis)engagement : exploring Black and African American students' experiences in libraries - Amanda L. Folk; Tracey Overbey
Narratives of (dis)enfranchisement : reckoning with the history of libraries and the Black and African American experience - Tracey Overbey; Amanda L. Folk
Narratives of (dis)enfranchisement : reckoning with the history of libraries and the Black and African American experience - Tracey Overbey; Amanda L. Folk
"This report provides an overview of the historical exclusion and disenfranchisement of Blacks and African Americans from libraries and educational institutions in the United States and explores the ways in which the legacy of this exclusion manifests today"--
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Narratives of (dis)enfranchisement : reckoning with the history of libraries and the Black and African American experience - Tracey Overbey; Amanda L. Folk
Libraries promoting reflective dialogue in a time of political polarization - Baer Andrea; others; Andrea Baer (Editor); Ellysa Stern Cahoy; Robert Schroeder
Libraries promoting reflective dialogue in a time of political polarization - Baer Andrea; others; Andrea Baer (Editor); Ellysa Stern Cahoy; Robert Schroeder
Reflective dialogue asks us to pause before reacting, to ground ourselves in a sense of compassion for ourselves and others, and to use that grounding to open a space to listen and to speak with the goal of recognizing a shared humanity and appreciating difference. In four sections, Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization explores the various ways in which librarians experience and respond to political polarization and its effects, both in our everyday work and in our professional communities.
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Libraries promoting reflective dialogue in a time of political polarization - Baer Andrea; others; Andrea Baer (Editor); Ellysa Stern Cahoy; Robert Schroeder
Libraries and archives in the digital age - Susan L. Mizruchi (Editor)
Libraries and archives in the digital age - Susan L. Mizruchi (Editor)
"The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit archives to pursue common questions about value across the institutional boundaries that typically separate us." --
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Libraries and archives in the digital age - Susan L. Mizruchi (Editor)
Self as subject : autoethnographic research into identity, culture, and academic librarianship - Anne-Marie Deitering; Richard A. Stoddart; Robert Schroeder
Self as subject : autoethnographic research into identity, culture, and academic librarianship - Anne-Marie Deitering; Richard A. Stoddart; Robert Schroeder
Autoethnography is a type of research that uses writing and self-examination to explore far-ranging cultural, political, and social issues through personal experience. It is a qualitative, reflexive, ethnographic method where the researcher is also the subject of inquiry.
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Self as subject : autoethnographic research into identity, culture, and academic librarianship - Anne-Marie Deitering; Richard A. Stoddart; Robert Schroeder