Press Release: Taking the pulse: Share your voice on the state of libraries. Libraries today are navigating a landscape filled with opportunities and challenges. The rapid acceleration of AI is reshaping how information is discovered, accessed and understood. Open access scholarship is expanding the boundaries of knowledge sharing, while simultaneously challenging traditional publishing and acquisition models. All of this is unfolding under the weight of persistent budget constraints, staffing shortages and shifting institutional priorities.

You’ve spoken up. Now it’s time to lead. Here are simple, powerful ways to boldly advocate for issues that matter to you.

The Scholarly Communication & Information Policy (SCIP) office is pleased to announce the release of our comprehensive Oral History Agreement Toolkit—a collection of templates, guidance documents, and resources designed to help transform how institutions approach oral history agreements. Why We

Making decisions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in today’s landscape is complex. Leaders face legal uncertainty, reputational concerns, financial risks, workforce tensions, and operational challenges—and without a structured way to assess these risks, fear and indecision take over. That’s why our Decision Scientists created the DEI Risk Assessment Tool—a data-driven, structured approach to help leaders separate real business threats from hypothetical fears and make informed, strategic decisions about their DEI efforts

This guide is intended to help academic libraries create policies for responding to challenges to library materials.

This training is meant for anyone who feels there is a lack of productive discourse around issues of diversity and the role of identity in social relationships, both on a micro (individual) and macro (communal) level.

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.

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 […]

Read part 2 of the Diversity Audit blog series here! This year I attended a mini-institute that claimed it was about “auditing the library for diversity, equity and inclusion.” I wanted…

Read Allyship ToolKit by LSPIRG on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here!

A guide on Activism, Protest, Social Movements and Police Response to Civil Unrest

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.

Know your Rights is an exploration of what your rights are, how to exercise them, and what to do if your rights are violated.

Presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm in 1972 Library research guides are always an incredible source of collected resou...

Diversity & Inclusion in Law Libraries – Resources (Rev. May 6, 2022) This guide presents information for law libraries who … "Diversity & Inclusion Resource Guide"

Diversity and Inclusion resource page.

Belonging is a fundamental human need, and one that is linked to many of the most complex challenges of our time. Without a sense of belonging, individuals and communities suffer; with it, they thrive. Yet, because belonging is notoriously difficult to measure, it is often ignored in efforts to address the deep fractures in our societies. One purpose of this report is to call attention to belonging as a factor that matters deeply for leaders and stakeholders across diverse sectors.

A collection of resources related to trauma informed practices in law libraries, trauma informed teaching, and polyvagal theory, based on the NELLCO Symposium.

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This guide will help you create accessible documents, slides, and posters.

According to the CDC, as much as 25% of the population have a disability that may exclude them from using your website. That is one in four people who...

The updated WCAG Guidelines eBook will help you plan your content for compliance as well as setting your media up for success with a larger audience.

The Americans with Disabilities Act created regulations for the accessibility of buildings and services for individuals with disabilities, but libraries still have a deficit in information highligh...

The Vera Institute for Justice in New York City has five tip sheets for " Designing Accessible Events for People with Disabilities and Deaf...