| 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. |
| Abstract |
"[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 sections: * Recruitment, Retention and Promotion* Professional Development* Leveraging Collegial Networks* Reinforcing the Message* Organizational Change* AssessmentChapters 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2022). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Lee, Corliss Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chicago, IL : Association of College & Research Libraries,c2022 9780838939109 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780838937594 electronic book |
| ISBN | 0838937594 electronic book |
