Tagged: diversity

Raise Your Voice: Increasing Diversity and Inclusion by Participating in Scholarly Peer Review [video replay]

Scholarly publishing needs input from diverse voices to ensure both quality and equity. Let Erin Owens, an experienced peer reviewer for more than 10 LIS journals, show you how scholarly peer review can benefit you, your peers, and the profession as a whole. You will leave this session with a...

Raise Your Voice: Increasing Diversity and Inclusion by Participating in Scholarly Peer Review

Scholarly publishing needs input from diverse voices to ensure both quality and equity. Let Erin Owens, an experienced peer reviewer for more than 10 LIS journals, show you how scholarly peer review can benefit you, your peers, and the profession as a whole.

Beyond Library Diversity Residencies: Strategies to Recruit, Retain, and Promote Librarians of Color [video replay]

In this video replay, a panel of current resident librarians will provide an overview of these diversity programs and center their experiences of these programs to suggest further avenues of exploration that build on existing structures and rethink the ways that we can build meaningful support for librarians of color....

Beyond Library Diversity Residencies: Strategies to Recruit, Retain, and Promote Librarians of Color

The ACRL Professional Development Committee presents: Beyond Library Diversity Residencies: Strategies to Recruit, Retain, and Promote Librarians of ColorTuesday, February 19, 201911:00 a.m. CSTPresented online via ZoomRegistration Link The lack of racial diversity within the academic librarian profession is largely acknowledged within the field and reflected in iterative conversations about...

Making the Case for Diversity: Grassroots Leadership as a Catalyst for Change (2018 Annual)

Saturday, June 23 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Morial Convention Center, Rm 291-292 This interactive session brings together librarians who have taken a grassroots leadership role in driving diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI) at their institutions. In our current socio-political environment, DEI is a necessary core value of our...