Archive for January, 2016
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The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action
January 13, 2016 | 34 commentsTags: ClimateQUAL, diversity, identity, institutional racism, microaggressions, organizational culture, perceptions, professional identity, whitenessby Jennifer Vinopal The work of diversity in libraries begins at the crossroad where superiority, inaction, and denial become intolerable. – Sandra Ríos Balderrama, “This Trend Called Diversity” In Brief: Despite our ongoing quest for diversity and a growing number of initiatives to increase it, the demographics of the professional librarian population haven’t changed in…