Everything tagged: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Highlights of interest to the Canadian library and information management community

Extracts from the 2021 Census about the library and information management community.

The Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework is a tool both theoretical and practical in its orientation, as a guide for developing personal, organizational, institutional, and systems-level knowledge and understanding of the nature of racism and its many manifestations.

The International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion seeks papers for its Winter/Spring 2023 regular issue.

The surveys are part of a project to develop a toolkit to help libraries achieve more racially equitable workforces; libraries can become stronger, more effective and relevant by hiring people with diverse lived experiences, talents, and abilities.

The study was conducted to gather baseline data on the composition of personnel in CARL libraries, gauge employee feedback on current EDI initiatives, and establish a set of benchmarks against which to evaluate and measure the impact of CARL libraries’ strategies and practices with respect to diversity and inclusion.

Highlights of interest to the Canadian library and information management community

The Library of Parliament has recently released a number of research publications on topics of interest to the library and information management community.

The framework has been developed as a tool both theoretical and practical in its orientation, as a guide for developing personal, organizational, institutional, and systems-level knowledge and understanding of the nature of racism, its many manifestations.

How do academic librarians learn about Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion? What makes learning about EDI transformative and impactful? Canadian academic librarians and archivists are invited to participate in a research study on EDI learning experiences.