Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action

Planning, Leadership, and Programming

By: Christine Bombaro (Editor)

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Paperback | 3 August 2020

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All too often, in a hurried attempt to "catch up," diversity training can create division among staff or place undue burdens on a handful of employees. Instead, academic libraries need approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that position these priorities as ongoing institutional and professional goals. This book's model programs will help academic libraries do exactly that, sharing a variety of initiatives that possess clear goals, demonstrable outcomes, and reproducible strategies. Librarians, administrators, and directors will all benefit from the programs detailed inside, which include such topics as

a university library's community of practice for interactions and learning around DEI;
cultural competency training to create more welcoming instruction spaces;
student workshops on literature searches that mitigate bias;
overcoming the historic tendency to marginalize LGBTQ+ representation in archives;
a curriculum and design workshop that moved from discussing social values to embedding them in actions;
the founding of a library-led LGBT club for students at a rural community college;
a liberal arts college's retention-boosting program for first-generation students;
tailoring a collection and library services to the unique needs of student veterans; and
a framework for moving from diversity to equity and inclusion, toward a goal of social justice.

With this volume's model programs to guide them, academic libraries and their staff can successfully strengthen their own DEI initiatives.

Industry Reviews

"A timely sampler of the critical work being done by academic libraries ... This reviewer especially appreciated the practical suggestions and assessment sections found in each chapter that documents a DEI program or course. This work is recommended for academic libraries--or any library--interested in transitioning the concepts of DEI into significant change."
-- Serials Review
"Thoughtful, useful, and timely ... This book as a whole takes a clear-eyed look at where academic libraries continue to fall short in DEI work and offers a wide array of insights and models to enable us to do better. Even for librarians and organizations that are further along in this work, this book is comprehensive enough to offer everyone something new to consider or emulate. Each chapter is well-written, clear, and informative."
-- College & Research Libraries

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