Reading Materials and Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
DEI Education & Training Resources
TED Talks
Active Bystander tips
Approaching difficult conversation
Decolonization
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Labor Practices
- Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman, Amy Wickner, Stacie Williams, and Emily Drabinski
- "Critical Race Theory and the Recruitment, Retention and Promotion of a Librarian of Color" by Shaundra Walker book chapter in Where Are All the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia, edited by Rebecca Hankins and Miguel Juárez
- "Emotions and You" emotional tendencies assessment exercise by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy on Liz+Mollie
- “Evening Things Out: New research says relatively simple interventions are effective in addressing faculty workload imbalances and inequities" by Colleen Flaherty on Inside Higher Ed
- "How to Foster a Culture of Belonging at Work" by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy on Quartz At Work
- Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Report: Members of the Association of Research Libraries, Employee Demographics and Director Perspectives by Roger C. Schonfeld and Liam Sweeney
- "Keeping Up WIth Implicit Bias" by Tarica LaBossiere, Endia Paige, and Beau Steenken for ACRL
- "The Low Morale Experience of Academic Librarians: A Phenomenological Study" by Kaetrena Davis Kendrick in Journal of Library Administration
- “Measuring What Matters: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Academic Library Strategic Plans” by Jennifer K. Frederick and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg on Ithaka S+R
- "The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action" by Jennifer Vinopal's in In the Library w the Lead Pipe
- “Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital Humanities” by Roxanne Shirazi
- Sample job posting language to recruit diverse candidates Emily Carr University of Art + Design
- “Undue Burden: Who is doing the heavy lifting in terms of diversity and inclusion work?” by Colleen Flaherty on Inside Higher Ed
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Technology Systems and Interfaces
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives in our Community
Survey of existing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committees and initiatives across the GLAM landscape
Gender Inclusion
Implicit Bias
Inclusion (& Diversity)
Indigenous Land Acknowledgements
Intersectional Feminism
Homelessness
Personal Experience Stories
Power Dynamics & “Imposter Syndrome”
Race in Librarianship & Academia
- #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM resources
- "Black Excellence LIS Syllabus" T-Kay Sangwand, et al
- Bibliography on POC, Academia, Libraries, and Tenure-Track Jobs by Brittany P. Fiedler
- "Concealing White Supremacy through Fantasies of the Library: Economies of Affect at Work" by Michele R. Santamaria in Library Trends
- "Critical Conversations: A Tool for Dismantling White Supremacy at PWI’s" by Leah Kerr, Laurin Penland & Kelly Wooten
- Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
- "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique" by Kimberle Crenshaw in University of Chicago Legal Forum
- Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship: A Reading List by Karla J. Strand, DPhil, MLIS
- "How Race Is Conjured: An interview with Barbara J. Fields Karen E. Fields" by Jason Farbman
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- "In Pursuit of Anti-racist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library" by Freeda Brook, Dave Ellenwood & Althea Eannace Lazzaro in Library Trends
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- "On "Diversity" as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique' by David James Hudson in the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies
- Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS edited by Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho
- Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
- "Racial Microaggressions in Academic Libraries: Results of a Survey of Minority and Non-minority Librarians" by Jaena Alabi in The Journal of Academic Librarianship
- “Reclaiming our Time: A conversation with tenure-track academic librarians of color” by Kellee Warren, Treshani Perera, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, V. Dozier & Trevar Riley-Reid
- Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
- "Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship" by Angela Galvan in In the Library with the Lead Pipe
- "Systemic barriers and allyship in library publishing: A case study reminder that no one is safe from racism" by Charlotte Roh, Vanessa Gabler in College & Research Libraries News
- Topographies of Whiteness edited by Gina Schlesselman-Tarango
- "Trippin’ Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies" by Todd Honma in InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
- “The Unbearable Whiteness of Librarianship,” Chris Bourg, Feral Librarian
- We Here: a supportive social community for Black and Indigenous folks, and People of Color (BIPOC) in library and information science (LIS) professions and educational programs
- When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms by Helen Fox
- "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo in The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- “White Institutional Presence: The Impact of Whiteness on Campus Climate” by Diane Lynn Gusa in the Harvard Educational Review
- "White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS" by April Hathcock in In the Library with the Lead Pipe
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- “Whiteness as Property” by Cheryl I. Harris in the Harvard Law Review
- "Your focus on race is narrow and exclusive: the derailment of anti-racist work through discourses of intersectionality and diversity" by Jason Rodriguez & Kendralin J. Freeman in Whiteness and Education
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