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Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries
“[T]he diversity of perspectives presented within this publication will build on the reader’s existing knowledge to bring nuances and alternative approaches to these enduring, seemingly intractable challenges within the LIS profession and within society.”
— from the Foreword by Mark A. Puente
Academic library workers often make use of systemic, bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic dimensions of organizational behavior to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, but many are also doing the crucial work of pushing back at the structures surrounding them in ways small and large.
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and representative institutions. 19 chapters are divided into 6
Chapters cover topics including active diversity recruitment strategies; inclusive hiring; gendered ageism; librarians with disabilities; diversity and inclusion with student workers; residencies and retention; creating and implementing a diversity strategic plan; cultural competency training; libraries’ responses to Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action; and accountability and assessment. Authors provide practical guiding principles, effective practices, and sample programs and training.
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion explores how academic libraries have leveraged and deployed their institutions’ resources to effect DEI improvements while working toward implementing systemic solutions. It provides means and inspiration for continuing to try to hire, retain, and promote the change we want to see in the world regardless of existing structures and systems, and ways to improve those structures and systems for the future.
— from the Foreword by Mark A. Puente
Academic library workers often make use of systemic, bureaucratic, political, collegial, and symbolic dimensions of organizational behavior to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, but many are also doing the crucial work of pushing back at the structures surrounding them in ways small and large.
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and representative institutions. 19 chapters are divided into 6
Chapters cover topics including active diversity recruitment strategies; inclusive hiring; gendered ageism; librarians with disabilities; diversity and inclusion with student workers; residencies and retention; creating and implementing a diversity strategic plan; cultural competency training; libraries’ responses to Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action; and accountability and assessment. Authors provide practical guiding principles, effective practices, and sample programs and training.
Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion explores how academic libraries have leveraged and deployed their institutions’ resources to effect DEI improvements while working toward implementing systemic solutions. It provides means and inspiration for continuing to try to hire, retain, and promote the change we want to see in the world regardless of existing structures and systems, and ways to improve those structures and systems for the future.
492 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2022
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October 25, 2022
Good academic survey of recent research and initiatives in trying to expand the scope of DEI reform getting off the ground in higher education.
It is terribly academic, there are some great report outs on work being done pre-2020; it will be interesting to follow-up with the shared efforts in the next few years as the zeitgeist moment of supporting this work ages a bit, and stamina/funding fades.
Will the long-standing library structures that privilege whiteness be bent to the long arc of history in this engaged era, or will it rope-a-dope flex and snap back another few generations of workers into settling for the status quo? It remains to be seen, the work is getting funded more, but is it just a rhetorical salve or is change actually afoot?
This book shares some ways to engage the fight, and presciently lays out some of the structural library issues that have to be reformed before any real form of meaningful DEI is holistically achieved for the future.
It is terribly academic, there are some great report outs on work being done pre-2020; it will be interesting to follow-up with the shared efforts in the next few years as the zeitgeist moment of supporting this work ages a bit, and stamina/funding fades.
Will the long-standing library structures that privilege whiteness be bent to the long arc of history in this engaged era, or will it rope-a-dope flex and snap back another few generations of workers into settling for the status quo? It remains to be seen, the work is getting funded more, but is it just a rhetorical salve or is change actually afoot?
This book shares some ways to engage the fight, and presciently lays out some of the structural library issues that have to be reformed before any real form of meaningful DEI is holistically achieved for the future.
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