March 2017

Greetings, 
 As mentioned in our previous email, ILA's Committee for Diversity & Inclusion working to partially fulfill our charge of promoting awareness of issues relating to diversity and inclusion to the greater ILA membership. One piece of that is sending out periodic emails with items that may be of interest or value to those seeking to learn more about issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and social justice. While we know we can’t be comprehensive, we will do our best to collect timely resources on library-related issues and share those every few weeks. We are still working to find our rhythm in regards to frequency, and for now will employ a less-is-more approach (to be mindful of ever-bursting email inboxes). This installment presents resources from ALA, podcasts, blogs, newspapers, and other media. If you have resources that fall under the diversity and inclusion umbrella you feel might be helpful or interesting for the ILA membership, please feel free to send them my way and I will work with the committee to share them out as appropriate. 

Sincerely, 
Cara B. Stone 
Chair, ILA Ad Hoc Committee for Diversity & Inclusion 

• Playing With Perceptions, TED Radio Hour (Podcast): http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=515438384:515439526 
•  Queer children’s books have a long history that’s only now being told, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/feb/23/queer-childrens-books-have-a-long-history-thats-only-now-being-told?CMP=share_btn_link 
• How Socioeconomic Diversity In Schools Helps All Students https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/03/16/how-socioeconomic-diversity-in-schools-helps-all-students/ 
• Wando High principal pulls student-run news show over segment on transgender bathrooms http://www.postandcourier.com/news/wando-principals-censor-episode-of-student-run-news-show-over/article_afcf261e-05a8-11e7-ab1c-23d47df2b3fc.html 
• This Map Shows Over a Century of Documented Lynchings in the United States: Mapping the history of racial terror http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-shows-over-a-century-of-documented-lynchings-in-united-states-180961877/ 
• Monroe Work Today (lynchings map) http://www.monroeworktoday.org/ (of particular interest to librarians might be the “Ask Questions” tab) 
• 25 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students, NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/learning/lesson-plans/25-mini-films-for-exploring-race-bias-and-identity-with-students.html?_r=0 
• Survey: Bullying of Marginalized Students On the Rise, School Library Journal http://www.slj.com/2017/03/diversity/survey-bullying-of-marginalized-students-on-the-rise/ 
• Project Implicit, Harvard University https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html 
• Six charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America http://www.salon.com/2017/03/18/six-charts-that-illustrate-the-divide-between-rural-and-urban-america/ 
• Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/arts/confronting-academias-ties-to-slavery.html 
• New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/books/review/black-lives-matter-teenage-books.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 
• Announcement: Native American and First Nations LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Bibliography http://www.glbtrt.ala.org/news/archives/2865 
• “Rock Star” Librarians Article Hits Sour Note | Opinion, School Library Journal http://www.slj.com/2017/03/industry-news/rock-star-librarians-article-hits-sour-note-opinion/ 
• A step toward greater diversity in children’s books: Hena Khan’s ‘Amina’s Voice’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/a-step-toward-greater-diversity-in-childrens-books-hena-khans-aminas-voice/2017/03/20/247b1ff4-0284-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.b8ccab24686f 
• Recruiting and Retaining LGBTQ-Identified Staff in Academic Libraries Through Ordinary Methods http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/recruiting-and-retaining-lgbtq-identified-staff-in-academic-libraries-through-ordinary-methods/ 

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This message is sent on behalf of the ILA Committee for Diversity and Inclusion as a point of interest for the general membership; CD&I is not responsible for any of the content found within, and any views may not necessarily represent those of the committee, its members, or any associated organizations. It is shared for informational purposes only. 
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February 2017

Greetings, 

In working to partially fulfill the ILA Committee for Diversity & Inclusion’s charge of promoting awareness of issues relating to diversity and inclusion to the greater ILA membership, we will be sending out periodic emails with items that may be of interest or value to those seeking to learn more about issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and social justice. While we know we can’t be comprehensive, we will do our best to collect timely resources on library-related issues and share those every few weeks. We are still working to find our rhythm in regards to frequency, and for now will employ a less-is-more approach (because I don’t know anyone who has expressed a desire for more emails in their inbox). In this inaugural installment, we’ve gathered resources from ALA, podcasts, and other media. If you have resources that fall under the diversity and inclusion umbrella you feel might be helpful or interesting for the ILA membership, please feel free to send them my way and I will work with the committee to share them out as appropriate.

Sincerely,  

Cara B. Stone 
Chair, ILA Ad Hoc Committee for Diversity & Inclusion 

Resources:

• Libraries Respond (ALA): http://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity/libraries-respond 
• Libraries Respond: Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) 
• Libraries Respond: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers 
• Libraries Respond: 2016 Election 
• Libraries Respond: 10 Things Your Library Can Do for 2017 and Beyond 
• Libraries Respond: National Day of Healing 
• Podcast episode that relates to diversity in publishing: Ten Thousand Writers... and Two Intrepid Podcast Hosts 
• Microaggressions, Faculty, and Academic Librarians: a study in intersectionality http://acrlog.org/2017/02/22/microaggressions-faculty-and-academic-librarians-a-study-in-intersectionality/ 
•  ALA Protests Rollback of Transgender Protections: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/ala-protests-rollback-transgender-protections/ 
• Dallas Library Embraces Role As Haven For The Homeless: http://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513957899/dallas-library-embraces-role-as-haven-for-the-homeless 
• Library Advocacy from ALA: http://www.ala.org/offices/ola 
• Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, ALA: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity 
• ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services: http://www.ala.org/offices/diversity 

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This message is sent on behalf of the ILA Committee for Diversity and Inclusion as a point of interest for the general membership; CD&I is not responsible for any of the content found within, and any views may not necessarily represent those of the committee, its members, or any associated organizations. It is shared for informational purposes only. 

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