Hello from ILA’s Committee for Diversity and Inclusion!
Each month our committee sends out a list of resources focused on topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. We hope you find these useful, and if you come across anything that falls under the diversity and inclusion umbrella that you feel might be helpful or interesting for library staff across Iowa, please feel free to send them my way and I will work with the committee to include them in our Resource Roundup or to otherwise share them out as appropriate.
If you have some money in your CE budget and are looking for some great opportunities related to diversity and inclusion, check out some of these great courses from UW-Madison!
- Spanish For Libraries 1
- The Disability Community In The Library: Education, Access & Advocacy
- Trans-Inclusive Librarianship
- Inclusive Marketing: What Is Your Marketing Really Saying?
- Designing For Accessibility
Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled has a ton of great resources and information worth checking out.
August 2022 Social Justice Discussion Group - Living with a mental illness/mental health condition
Over the next month we’ll be reading, watching, and listening to resources about living with a mental illness/mental health condition. Please explore these resources with us and join us for a discussion or two. Discussions will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, August 3 at 10:00 am and Monday, August 8 at 2:00 pm (Meeting ID: 864 3832 3094, Passcode: 427944).
We would love it if you joined us for either or both discussions. The level of participation is up to you; you may actively contribute or just listen and learn.
- What Are Your Rights at Work When You’re Depressed? 1
- Library Journal: Mental Wellness
- Maria Bamford - Crazy Meds
- The Mental Illness Happy Hour
CDI is also exploring assembling some toolboxes for libraries to use when evaluating how to be more equitable and inclusive. If you have experience in any of the following areas, we would love to hear from you! Please let us know a bit about what you did, how you did it, and advice you’d offer to others. Also, if you have other topics that you’d love to see a toolbox for, please let us know.
- Starting an EDI committee at your library/institution/city
- Evaluating your library policies through the EDI lens
- Evaluating your collections through the EDI lens
- Hiring through the EDI lens
On behalf of ILA CD&I,
Amanda Bellis
Chair, ILA Committee for Diversity and Inclusion
abellis@ankenyiowa.gov
