Join ACRL this April for an interactive three-part webcast series with authors and editors of ACRL’s Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries providing a platform for enhanced discussion around Ethnic Studies and librarianship. Participants will appraise library support for Ethnic Studies programs/departments, either personally or collectively based on presented […]
During these unprecedented times since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, heightened social awareness of systemic racism, oppression, and institutional violence, and economic recession– all of which disproportionately impact communities of color– the ACRL Board of Directors has approved funding for one year of ALA and ACRL membership for up […]
ALA, ACRL, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and the 1890 Land-Grant Institutions and Tuskegee University Library Deans/Directors Association, Inc., are sponsoring a virtual screening of the short film Hidden in Full View, the […]
ACRL announces the publication of Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries, edited by Corliss Lee and Brian Lym with Tatiana Bryant, Jonathan Cain, and Kenneth Schlesinger. This thorough book captures emerging practices that academic libraries and librarians can use to create more equitable and […]
Recently, to open a meeting of ACRL team leaders, I told a joke. Jokes can be fraught, but they can also help us to see things in a new light, to reassess situations that have been taken for granted. This one helps me look at identity and naming: A grasshopper […]
ACRL is excited to offer the free ACRL Presents webcast “Supported to Stay: A Discussion of Retention Experiences and EDI-informed Approaches” at 11:00 a.m. Central on Thursday, March 3, 2022. We want to talk about why we stay in library work and what practices might motivate our reason to do […]
The recording of the February 16, 2022, ALA/ARL Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity: A Framework Update is now available on our YouTube channel. Christina Fuller-Gregory, assistant director of libraries, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, and Mark A. Puente, Associate Dean for Organizational Development, Diversity, and Inclusion, […]
The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of ALA, have issued the following joint statement in response to incidents of bomb threats against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): “The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) […]
Jesus Espinoza, Deborah Yun Caldwell, and Anastasia Chiu are conducting a survey on library diversity residency programs and their impacts on library organizational hiring and retention practices on behalf of the ACRL Diversity Alliance Task Force. The survey focuses on how libraries’ organization hiring and retention practices change as a […]
Since 1970, the U.S. has celebrated Black History Month. The singular importance of February for this special month arises, in part, from the birth dates of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (observed on February 14), dates that have been memorialized since the 19th century. It is this month […]
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