Implementing excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion : a handbook for academic libraries /

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...

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Group Author: Lee, Corliss (Editor); Lym, Brian (Editor); Bryant, Tatiana (Contributor); Cain, Jonathan (Librarian) (Contributor); Schlesinger, Kenneth (Contributor)
Published: Association of College and Research Libraries,
Publisher Address: Chicago, IL :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: xvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780838939109
0838939104
Index Number: Z
CLC: G251.6
Call Number: G251.6/I345
Contents: Section I: Recruitment, retention and promotion -- Transitioning from passive to active diversity recruitment strategies : A case study -- A journey to hiring with heart : A case study on implementing leading practices in inclusive hiring -- Gendered ageism as a barrier to tenure-track librarianship -- Desperately seeking librarians with a disability -- Mentoring and diversity -- Bare witness : Library leaders of color tell their stories of advancing into senior leadership positions.
Section II: Professional development -- Your workforce is more than you think : Looking at diversity and inclusion with student workers -- Introducing cultural competency in libraries: A case study in grassroots professional development -- Embracing a culture of humility, diversity, and inclusion: A case study of an academic library's radical compassion programming -- Cultural intelligence in academic libraries.
Section III: Leveraging collegial networks -- Braving our blind spots: Using a virtual book discussion group to continue conversations on implicit bias in libraries -- Bridging the gap between residencies and retention: A case study of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's diversity resident librarian program and the inception of the library diversity institute.
Section IV: Reinforcing the message -- Critical analysis of ARL member institutions' diversity statements.
Section V: Organizational change -- The making of Emory Libraries' Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee: A case study -- Framework for change: Utilizing a university-wide diversity strategic planning process for an academic library -- An introductory indigenous cultural competency training program in the acadmic environment -- Journeying to accountability: Labor and responses of settler knowledge institutions to indigenous communities and issues.
Section VI: Assessment -- Assessing DEI efforts in academic libraries: More than a body count -- Diversity, equity, and inclusion plans and programs in ARL libraries.