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Below is a definitely-not-exhaustive reading list about diversifying librarianship primarily related to including more people of color and addressing our whiteness problem.
Sharing here in case it& #39;s of use to folks who want to know more or who get asked about it a lot.
Sharing here in case it& #39;s of use to folks who want to know more or who get asked about it a lot.
Alabi, J. (2015). Racial microaggressions in academic libraries: Results of a survey of minority and non-minority librarians. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(1), 47-53. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2014.10.008.">https://doi.org/10.1016/j...
Brook, F., Ellenwood, D., & Lazzaro, A.E. (2015). In pursuit of antiracist social justice: Denaturalizing whiteness in the academic library. Library Trends 64(2): 246-284. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/34983 .">https://hdl.handle.net/1773/3498...
Building an Inclusive Workforce … employees with disabilities http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/20100727.pdf">https://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs...
Gibson, A. (2019). Civility and Structural Precarity for Faculty of Color in LIS. https://doi.org/10.17615/3vd6-g637">https://doi.org/10.17615/...
Hathcock, A. (2015). White librarianship in blackface : diversity initiatives in LIS. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/">https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-...
Kayes, Pauline E. "New paradigms for diversifying faculty and staff in higher education: uncovering cultural biases in the search and hiring process." Multicultural Education 14.2 (2006): 65. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.
Kendrick, K.D., & Damasco, I.T. (2019). Low Morale in Ethnic and Racial Minority Academic Librarians: An Experiential Study. Library Trends 68(2), 174-212. doi:10.1353/lib.2019.0036.
Leung, S. Y., & López-McKnight, J. R. (2020). Dreaming Revolutionary Futures: Critical Race’s Centrality to Ending White Supremacy. Communications in Information Literacy, 14 (1), 12-26. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.1.2">https://doi.org/10.15760/...
Mirza, Rafia, and Maura Seale. 2017a. “Who Killed the World? White Masculinity and the Technocratic Library of the Future.” In Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science, Library Juice Press. http://mauraseale.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mirza-Seale-Technocratic-Library.pdf.">https://mauraseale.org/wp-conten...
Pashia, A. (2017). Seeking a diverse candidate pool. http://angelapashia.com/seeking-a-diverse-candidate-pool/">https://angelapashia.com/seeking-a...
Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2017). “We Are All for Diversity But…”: How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change. Harvard Educational Review. https://www.hepgjournals.org/doi/abs/10.17763/1943-5045-87.4.557">https://www.hepgjournals.org/doi/abs/1...
Vinopal, J. (2016). The quest for diversity in library staffing: From awareness to action. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/quest-for-diversity/">https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/ques...
Wagner, M. M. & Willms, D. (2010). The Urban Library Program: Challenges to Educating and Hiring a Diverse Workforce. Library Trends 59(1), 128-146. The Johns Hopkins University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/v059/59.1-2.wagner.html">https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/...
Williams, J. and van Arnehm, J.-P. (2015). But Then You Have to Make It Happen. Code4Lib 28, http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10487 ">https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/...
Williams, T. & Hagood, A. (2019). Disability, the silent D in diversity. Library Trends, 67(3), 487–196. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/723593 ">https://muse.jhu.edu/article/7...
And if you want more, you can basically look for any of these pieces in Google Scholar, click on the "cited by" link and find a slew more
Oh, also, ALA has an EDI Speakers Bureau, where you can hire someone to speak with your organization. https://edispeakers.ala.org/
(Yes,">https://edispeakers.ala.org/">... hire. Helping people + orgs with this is work. Get consent + provide payment, don& #39;t demand this for free.)
(IDK their vetting process.)
(Yes,">https://edispeakers.ala.org/">... hire. Helping people + orgs with this is work. Get consent + provide payment, don& #39;t demand this for free.)
(IDK their vetting process.)
