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Below is a definitely-not-exhaustive reading list about diversifying librarianship primarily related to including more people of color and addressing our whiteness problem.
Sharing here in case it's of use to folks who want to know more or who get asked about it a lot.
Sharing here in case it's of use to folks who want to know more or who get asked about it a lot.
Alabi, J. (2015). Racial microaggressions in academic libraries: Results of a survey of minority and non-minority librarians. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(1), 47-53. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2014.10.008.
Brook, F., Ellenwood, D., & Lazzaro, A.E. (2015). In pursuit of antiracist social justice: Denaturalizing whiteness in the academic library. Library Trends 64(2): 246-284. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/34983 .
Building an Inclusive Workforce … employees with disabilities http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/20100727.pdf
Gibson, A. (2019). Civility and Structural Precarity for Faculty of Color in LIS. https://doi.org/10.17615/3vd6-g637
Hathcock, A. (2015). White librarianship in blackface : diversity initiatives in LIS. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/
Kayes, Pauline E. "New paradigms for diversifying faculty and staff in higher education: uncovering cultural biases in the search and hiring process." Multicultural Education 14.2 (2006): 65. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 30 Sept. 2015.
Kendrick, K.D., & Damasco, I.T. (2019). Low Morale in Ethnic and Racial Minority Academic Librarians: An Experiential Study. Library Trends 68(2), 174-212. doi:10.1353/lib.2019.0036.
Leung, S. Y., & López-McKnight, J. R. (2020). Dreaming Revolutionary Futures: Critical Race’s Centrality to Ending White Supremacy. Communications in Information Literacy, 14 (1), 12-26. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.1.2
Mirza, Rafia, and Maura Seale. 2017a. “Who Killed the World? White Masculinity and the Technocratic Library of the Future.” In Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science, Library Juice Press. http://mauraseale.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mirza-Seale-Technocratic-Library.pdf.
Pashia, A. (2017). Seeking a diverse candidate pool. http://angelapashia.com/seeking-a-diverse-candidate-pool/
Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2017). “We Are All for Diversity But…”: How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change. Harvard Educational Review. https://www.hepgjournals.org/doi/abs/10.17763/1943-5045-87.4.557
Vinopal, J. (2016). The quest for diversity in library staffing: From awareness to action. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2016/quest-for-diversity/
Wagner, M. M. & Willms, D. (2010). The Urban Library Program: Challenges to Educating and Hiring a Diverse Workforce. Library Trends 59(1), 128-146. The Johns Hopkins University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/v059/59.1-2.wagner.html
Williams, J. and van Arnehm, J.-P. (2015). But Then You Have to Make It Happen. Code4Lib 28, http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10487
Williams, T. & Hagood, A. (2019). Disability, the silent D in diversity. Library Trends, 67(3), 487–196. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/723593
And if you want more, you can basically look for any of these pieces in Google Scholar, click on the "cited by" link and find a slew more
Oh, also, ALA has an EDI Speakers Bureau, where you can hire someone to speak with your organization. https://edispeakers.ala.org/
(Yes, hire. Helping people + orgs with this is work. Get consent + provide payment, don't demand this for free.)
(IDK their vetting process.)
(Yes, hire. Helping people + orgs with this is work. Get consent + provide payment, don't demand this for free.)
(IDK their vetting process.)
