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What’s In A Name: Adding Inclusion
In late November, Diversity Committee Advisor Lindsay King presented the option to add to the ARLIS/NA Diversity Committee title. The change was presented to the Board who voted to support the addition for the committee to become officially known as the ARLIS/NA Diversity and Inclusion Committee! My thanks to Lindsay and the Board for making this possible.
Need For Change
According to a Google keyword search, the second definition of diversity is defined as, “the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different…” (Definitions From Oxford Languages). See what happened there (thinking face emoji)? The addition of “including or involving” highlights a responsibility or effort needed for diversity to be possible.
Focus
In placing inclusion prominently in the title, it centralizes the ARLIS/NA Diversity and Inclusion Committees commitment to create initiatives that support community building efforts that work to place library workers of color as part of a whole and not invisibly on the periphery.
Why change the name?
To show that while libraries may have multicultural staff, resources, or initiatives, they have not historically been inclusive to library workers of color
To highlight what is needed for diversity to occur, using this definition
To support initiatives that place POC library workers as part of the whole of a library
User error, as Chair, I added inclusion to the title - possibly TBI related
Natisha Harper, MLIS (3)
ARLIS/NA Diversity and Inclusion Chair
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