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Active Bystander tips

• Bystander Intervention Do’s and Don’t" from American Friends Service Committee
• Bystander Intervention Resources from hollaback!
• Librarians as Active Bystanders: Centering Social Justice in LIS Practice by Dr. Nicole Amy Cooke for ATLAp (30 minutes)
• “What Is Your Responsibility as a Bystander to a Colleague Having Problems?” By Allison M. Vaillancourt in The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Approaching difficult conversation

• “360° Dialogue: How to get people at every level to speak up” by Emily Gregory of VitalSmarts (40 minute webinar)
• “A Co-Active® Leadership Conversation:The Surprising Connection Between Vulnerability and Power” (61 minute webinar)
• Crucial Conversations book Part 1 and Part 2
• “Crucial Skills” blog
• No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• "We Have to Talk: A Step-By-Step Checklist for Difficult Conversations" By Judy Ringer
• What Does Call-In Mean? When Call-Out Culture Feels Toxic, This Method Can Be Used Instead By Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro

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Decolonization

• “A Critical Take on OER Practices: Interrogating Commercialization, Colonialism, and Content” Sarah Crissinger in In The Library With The Lead Pipe
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• "Globalization, Open Access, and the Democratization of Knowledge" by Harrison W. Inefuku in EDUCAUSEreview

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Labor Practices

• Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman, Amy Wickner, Stacie Williams, and Emily Drabinski
• "Critical Race Theory and the Recruitment, Retention and Promotion of a Librarian of Color" by Shaundra Walker book chapter in Where Are All the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia, edited by Rebecca Hankins and Miguel Juárez
• "Emotions and You" emotional tendencies assessment exercise by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy on Liz+Mollie
• “Evening Things Out: New research says relatively simple interventions are effective in addressing faculty workload imbalances and inequities" by Colleen Flaherty on Inside Higher Ed
• "How to Foster a Culture of Belonging at Work" by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy on Quartz At Work
• Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Report: Members of the Association of Research Libraries, Employee Demographics and Director Perspectives by Roger C. Schonfeld and Liam Sweeney
• "Keeping Up WIth Implicit Bias" by Tarica LaBossiere, Endia Paige, and Beau Steenken for ACRL
• "The Low Morale Experience of Academic Librarians: A Phenomenological Study" by Kaetrena Davis Kendrick in Journal of Library Administration
• “Measuring What Matters: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Academic Library Strategic Plans” by Jennifer K. Frederick and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg on Ithaka S+R
• "The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action" by Jennifer Vinopal's in In the Library w the Lead Pipe
• “Reproducing the Academy: Librarians and the Question of Service in the Digital Humanities” by Roxanne Shirazi
• Sample job posting language to recruit diverse candidates Emily Carr University of Art + Design
• “Undue Burden: Who is doing the heavy lifting in terms of diversity and inclusion work?” by Colleen Flaherty on Inside Higher Ed

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Technology Systems and Interfaces

• “Access Is Not Problem Solving: Disability Justice and Libraries” by Alana Kumbier and Julia Starkey in Library Trends
• "Care, Code, and Digital Libraries: Embracing Critical Practice in Digital Library Communities" by Kate Dohe in In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• Design for Diversity Learning Toolkit from the Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library
• “Invisible Defaults and Perceived Limitations: Processing the Juan Gelman Files” by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez in On Archivy - Medium
• “Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction” by Emily Drabinski in Library Quarterly
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives in our Community

Survey of existing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committees and initiatives across the GLAM landscape Top of Page

Equality vs. Equity

• "The problem with that equity vs. equality graphic you’re using" blog post on Cultural Organizing

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Gender Inclusion

• "From Diversity to Inclusion and Equity: Moving Beyond Good Intentions" blog post by By Susan Spilka on The Scholarly Kitchen
• "Gender-Inclusive Library Workgroup Report" by Erin White, Donna E. Coghill, M. Teresa Doherty, Liam Palmer and Steve Barkley of Virginia Commonwealth University
• "Non-binary Gender Identities in Libraries and Beyond" blog post by Shelia on Hack Library School
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson

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Images for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

• body liberation stock: from body liberation photos Stock photos and images for body size diversity and acceptance
• The Gender Spectrum Collection:Stock Photos Beyond the Binary

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Implicit bias

• Bias: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald
• Identifying and responding to microaggressions at work: an interview with Dr. Joseph Williams By Alice Meadows
• Keeping up with Implicit Bias by Tarica LaBossiere, Endia Paige, Beau Steenken and ACRL
• The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele

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Inclusion (& Diversity)

• ACRL
  • Diversity Standards: Cultural Competency for Academic Libraries
  • "Reflection and Conclusion of the EDI Discussion Series" by Hallie Clawson
• "Cultural Framework" Courtesy of Kelvin White for the Society of American Archivists' Cultural Heritage Working Group
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report by OpenCon
• “Diversity Matters? Rethinking Diversity in Libraries” by ShinJoung Yeo and James R. Jacobs in Counterpoise
• "Here’s what your diversity and inclusion initiatives are missing" by Alison Williams in Forbes
• The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH)
• Inside Higher Ed - Diversity Matters blog
• “Library Publishing and Diversity Values: Changing Scholarly Publishing Through Policy and Scholarly Communication Education” by Charlotte Roh in C&RL News
• “Making a New Table: Intersectional Librarianship” by Fobazi Ettarh in In The Library With The Lead Pipe
• NASIG Diversity and Inclusion Award
• Social Inclusion Audit
• "To learn inclusion skills, make it personal" by David Asai in Nature
• "Two Types of Diversity Training that Really Work" by Alex Lindsey , Eden King, Ashley Membere and Ho Kwan Cheung in the Harvard Business Review

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Indigenous land acknowledgements

• Example: New York University is located on the ancestral lands of the Lənape Haki-nk, of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, a proud and sovereign nation whose commitment to culture, community, and land stewardship persist in the face of ongoing settler colonialism.
• Example: Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR is located in the traditional territory of the Chepenefu ("Mary's River") band of the Kalapuya. After the Kalapuya Treaty (Treaty of Dayton) in 1855, Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to what are now the Grand Ronde and Siletz reservations, and are now members of Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (http://ctsi.nsn.us).
• Example: The University of Oregon in Eugene, OR is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and they continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon. For more information, please see the UO Libraries full statement on Honoring Native Peoples and Lands.
• Example: I live and work on Chochenyo Ohlone land. Whose land are you on?
• University of Alberta: https://www.ualberta.ca/toolkit/communications/acknowledgment-of-traditional-territory
• University of Guelph http://www.uoguelph.ca/facultyjobs/postings/ad19-59.shtml
• UCLA: https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/acknowledging-native-peoples-ucla-events/
• University of San Diego: https://sites.sandiego.edu/komjathy/files/2019/09/KumeyaayLandAcknowledgement.pdf
• San Diego State University: https://diversity.sdsu.edu/inclusion/jlwood/resource-library/land-acknowledgement.pdf
• The University of South Dakota acknowledges at many events that it is built on the ancestral lands of the Sioux, but I I could not find such an acknowledgement on the university's website. Mitakuye Oyasin does appear in several places (Sioux proverb meaning 'we are all related')
• Michigan State University has a land acknowledgement: https://www.canr.msu.edu/nai/about/land-acknowledgements
• I don't see a lot of institutional encouragement for staff to use acknowledgments of original land inhabitants in their *email signatures,* per se, but I do see some practitioners using wording that is also used by their institutions. Wording found at: https://www.washington.edu/diversity/tribal-relations/ and https://odi.osu.edu/land-acknowledgment
• city of Toronto: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accessibility-human-rights/indigenous-affairs-office/land-acknowledgement/
• http://landacknowledgements.org

University of Oregon: https://library.uoregon.edu/honoring-native-peoples-and-lands Top of Page

Intersectional Feminism

• Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities edited by Jacqueline Wernimont & Elizabeth Losh
• WOC + Lib

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Homelessness

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (non-fiction)
• Roam by C.H. Armstrong (fiction)
• Those who wander: America's lost street kids by Vivian Ho (non-fiction)

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Personal Experience Stories

• "Bias by a Thousand Cuts: A True Story" by by Joan Baldwin on Leadership Matters
• Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy

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Power Dynamics & “Imposter Syndrome”

• “Inner and Outer Critics: the Power Dynamics of Imposter Syndrome” by Lauren Bacon blog post
• “Just Not Sorry” Gmail plugin that helps empower rather than undermine your messages via email - pretty interesting! Check it out!
• “Overcoming Impostor Syndrome (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Coding)” by Alicia Liu blog post for medium.com
• “We Are Being Set Up To Fail — & It Should Make You Mad As Hell” Sarah M. Seltzer’s piece for Refinery29 argues that imposter syndrome has its roots in systemic problems
• “You Don’t have imposter syndrome (And neither do I anymore)” by Alicia Liu blog post for medium.com

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Race in librarianship/academia

• #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM resources
• Bibliography on POC, Academia, Libraries, and Tenure-Track Jobs by Brittany P. Fiedler
• "Concealing White Supremacy through Fantasies of the Library: Economies of Affect at Work" by Michele R. Santamaria in Library Trends
• "Critical Conversations: A Tool for Dismantling White Supremacy at PWI’s" by Leah Kerr, Laurin Penland & Kelly Wooten
• Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
• "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique" by Kimberle Crenshaw in University of Chicago Legal Forum
• "How Race Is Conjured: An interview with Barbara J. Fields Karen E. Fields" by Jason Farbman
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• "In Pursuit of Anti-racist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library" by Freeda Brook, Dave Ellenwood & Althea Eannace Lazzaro in Library Trends
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• "On "Diversity" as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique' by David James Hudson in the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies
• Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS edited by Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho
• Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
• "Racial Microaggressions in Academic Libraries: Results of a Survey of Minority and Non-minority Librarians" by Jaena Alabi in The Journal of Academic Librarianship
• “Reclaiming our Time: A conversation with tenure-track academic librarians of color” by Kellee Warren, Treshani Perera, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, V. Dozier & Trevar Riley-Reid
• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
• "Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship" by Angela Galvan in In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• "Systemic barriers and allyship in library publishing: A case study reminder that no one is safe from racism" by Charlotte Roh, Vanessa Gabler in [https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/index College & Research Libraries News
• Topographies of Whiteness edited by Gina Schlesselman-Tarango
• "Trippin’ Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies" by Todd Honma in InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
• “The Unbearable Whiteness of Librarianship,” Chris Bourg, Feral Librarian
• We Here: a supportive social community for Black and Indigenous folks, and People of Color (BIPOC) in library and information science (LIS) professions and educational programs
• When Race Breaks Out: Conversations about Race and Racism in College Classrooms by Helen Fox
• "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo in The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• “White Institutional Presence: The Impact of Whiteness on Campus Climate” by Diane Lynn Gusa in the Harvard Educational Review
• "White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS" by April Hathcock in In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• “Whiteness as Property” by Cheryl I. Harris in the Harvard Law Review
• "Your focus on race is narrow and exclusive: the derailment of anti-racist work through discourses of intersectionality and diversity" by Jason Rodriguez & Kendralin J. Freeman in Whiteness and Education

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Recommended authors

David James Hudson Maura Seale Rafia Mirza Gina Schlesselman-Tarango Fobazi Ettarh Safiya Noble Robin Di Angelo WEB De Bois Audrey Watters Anna Lauren Hoffmann Top of Page

Additional resources

Adrienne Maree Brown: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds DLF Digital Collection Creation (Cultural Assessment) Annotated Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18EBvHoWLbNx5-NA5_Llm9BQqx3RxOEsALrw5-JD8o4o/edit?usp=sharing Bottled up emotions at work lead to burnout: https://www.mindful.org/bottled-up-emotions-at-work-lead-to-burnout/ See “books” section for readings not listed specifically in this document (articles have been listed in this document): https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/recommended-reading/ DeEtta Jones and Associates puts on a lot of staff development workshops around these issues. https://deettajones.com/ Methods in forming a strategic plan. http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=846257ed-eda7-46ce-8121-5ea1add03c22%40pdc-v-sessmgr05 Top of Page