AL Live October 2016: Diversity in the Library

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Diversity in Libraries

Mario Ascencio, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, Jody Gray, and Jessica Jupitus

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

www.americanlibrarieslive.org

Diversity in Libraries | Mario Ascencio, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, Jody Gray, and Jessica Jupitus

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Mario Ascencio Visual Arts Liaison Librarian, George Mason University

Libraries, President, REFORMA

Jessica Jupitus• Central Branch Director, Sacramento Public Library

Melissa Cardenas-Dow Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of

California–Riverside in Riverside, CA

Jody Gray• Director, ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach

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How do you define diversity when it comes to libraries and librarianship?

What do you think are the most important diversity-related issues

facing libraries today?

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What do you think? Please weigh in!



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Let’s talk about how you foster diversity within your library staff.



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How do you build diversity into different aspects of your staffs activity?



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How do you ensure that diversity is the entire staff’s responsibility?



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How can we ensure that we are inviting diverse communities into our library

and making them adequately aware of the services we can offer?



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Let’s talk about making the library welcoming for specific minority and/or

marginalized communities.



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With the recent focus on issues like mass shooters, police violence and the BLM movement, what is the

library’s place? How can we make ourselves part of a solution and a resource for our community while

maintaining our professional ethics and standards?



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THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!

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AL Live October 2016: Diversity in the Library

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