Professional Development for Delaware Library Staff: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This free on-demand webinar, presented by the Race Forward Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), presented an overview of concepts and approaches libraries are using to reduce racial barriers in their work. 10/10/2018

In alignment with ALA’s strategic direction on equity, diversity, and inclusion, this free on-demand webinar provides an introductory understanding of the concepts of power, identity, and oppression, and how they impact public libraries’ staff, services, programs, collections, and spaces. Through presentation and dialogue, the panelists discuss the role of allies in addressing these concepts. 12/2018

Alberta Library Conference, Shereen Samuels and Heather Robertson, Calgary Public Library, May 2018.
Inclusion statements: what are they and why do they matter? Learn about the Calgary Public Library’s journey in thinking about, talking about and developing an inclusion statement, and what it can mean for the library’s daily work.

Georgia Library Association, August 30, 2017.
When you hear about censorship in libraries, you may automatically wonder what YA book is under attack this time. However, many of the challenges to intellectual freedom we’re facing go well beyond books. Online resources, speakers and events, programs, and other library initiatives are also coming under fire, and those of us in libraries may not always agree on what should be defended. This program discussed today’s threats to intellectual freedom and what librarians can do to stand up for free expression.
Martin Garnar is the dean of the Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

by Alanna Aiko Moore & Jaena Alabi. Sponsored by the Continuing Education Development Committee of LLAMA & the ALA Office for Diversity.

by Nicole A. Cooke
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
REFORMA MidWest | February 2015

It seems like everyone is talking about equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), but what does it really mean to put these values into practice at your library? In this webinar, the presenters will a provide a “starter kit” for EDI training in libraries. They will cover topics such as staff and management buy-in, low-cost training, and how to meaningfully engage staff in an effort to create a workplace culture that is affirming, representative, and inclusive. Additionally, attendees will learn to develop their own practical, useful, and actionable plan for implementing EDI staff learning in their own library. 12/2018

Prepared by the Diversity Committee of the Delaware Library Association.
Working document initiated December 2018.

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from Observations about books for children and teens from the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBlogC), April 6, 2018

A collection of thousands of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC), published and distributed in the U.S. since 2002. It offers a searchable database and a source of real-time data about who is in the books and how they are depicted.