68th chat, Monday October 17 2016: diversity/inclusion/anti-oppression at public service points

Moderated by @gnomadlibrarian
Storify (pdf, html) by @violetbfox

Suggested readings:

• Annie Pho & Turner Masland, The Revolution will not be Stereotyped: Changing Perceptions through Diversity. From The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work, 2014
• Lucy Kelly, Encouraging Diversity and Equity in Public Libraries. From Public Libraries Online, July 2016.

Discussion questions:

• Q1. What does diversity and inclusion mean to you and/or your library? #critlib
• Q2. What does an anti-oppressive service model look like? #critlib
• Q3. Beyond hiring diverse desk staff, what other steps can we take to create an empowered and inclusive service point? #critlib
• Q4. How can we incorporate diversity/inclusion/anti-oppression training into general service point training–especially for student employees? #critlib

For further exploration:

• Paul T. Jaeger, Lindsay C. Sarin, and Kaitlin J. Peterson, Diversity, Inclusion, and Library and Information Science: An Ongoing Imperative (or Why We Still Desperately Need to Have Discussions about Diversity and Inclusion). From The Library Quarterly, Vol 85, number 2, April 2015
• Juleah Swanson, Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship, Jul 2015