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The 鲍鱼直播 Library supports equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility work 鈥� in programming, services, teaching and learning, staff culture, scholarship, and advocacy,听however, we still have much learning to do 鈥� as individuals working in an academic research library, Library administrators听leading teams,听and as an organization as a whole. We look to align Library initiatives with those outlined in 鲍鱼直播鈥檚 Action Plan to Address Anti-Black Racism, 鲍鱼直播鈥檚 Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Strategic Plan (2020-2025) and our to be taken in all areas of the academic research library organization. The Library commits to engaging with this challenging and ongoing work in a variety of听ways with the aim of building deep and meaningful change.

Master of Information Studies Fellowship for Black Students. Applications due 31 March 2023.

The following action items have been undertaken by 鲍鱼直播 Library in 2020-2021 or will be developed in 2021-2022 to address anti-Black racism and work in Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI).听

Collections

Actions	Executive owner(s)	Progress
Create a LibGuide on anti-Black racism.	LibGuides Committee	听听
Continue to publish related LibGuides and add EDI content to existing LibGuides听in adjacent subject areas.	User Services
Create curated book displays in adjacent subject areas.	User Services
Make primary source material more accessible through the creation of Reference Guides for 鲍鱼直播's Institutional History.	Rare Books & Special Collections, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, Visual Arts Collection, Archives (ROAAr)
Archive of web content that documents 鲍鱼直播's response to Anti-Black Racism, specifically within the context of the 2020 conversations around Black Lives Matter and calls to address Anti-Black Racism and systemic racism.	Digital Initiatives and 鲍鱼直播 Archives	Access the collection directly through or through 鲍鱼直播 Library鈥檚 .
Animate primary resources featuring under-told 鲍鱼直播 stories. 1) Build a digital game that showcases the contributions of historical, racialized and ethnically diverse 鲍鱼直播ians. 2) Create of a podcast that explores the gaps in the 鲍鱼直播 Library collections where voices are under-represented.	ROAAr	听 Voices from the Footnotes podcast Podcast announcement
Decolonization of subject headings.	Collection Services	2021-2023 Indigenous and Inuit collections work connected to ROARr collections Homosaurus Thesaurus work - LGBTQ linked data vocabulary - -听headings added to WorldCat records Joined Library of Congress Subject Authority Cooperative Program听听 Following the group听re: new subject headings related to indigenous people Attend webinars on this topic including听
Continue to develop and curate collections and other resources that represent the voices and expressions of black, Indigenous, people of colour and other underrepresented communities.	Collection Services	The Collection Development Committee keeps a wish list of resources to purchase at year-end. EDI purchases listed and considered. Purchase Requests - 听Patterns with the online purchased requests identified (identifies any gaps to be filled). Work with publishers and vendors who support EDI efforts. These include: Adam Matthews - Recent acquisitions include access to from Adam Matthews. Bloomsbury - They strive for their authors, illustrators, and creative talent to match, at a minimum, national census data on Black, Asian, and multi-ethnic representation, and they strive for 20% for the UK and 35% for US new authors to be from Black and minority ethnic groups. EBSCO - we have a number of resources from EBSCO related to diversity - Elsevier - has a commitment to diversity in their workforce and product lines - ProQuest - Have access to ProQuest's Diversity Collections - Oxford University Press - A commitment to diversity in their book publishing - Sage - We have access to almost all collections from Sage, including their diversity collections - Springer/Nature - Has a DEI policy for their workforce and products - UK Publishers Association - They support EDI efforts by their members -
Library to support the planned monograph on 鲍鱼直播 history.	All units.

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Supporting Scholarly Practice

Actions	Executive owner(s)	Progress
Workshop for student journal editors on EDI Issues in scholarly publishing. This workshop describes specific actions journal teams can take to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their publication and teams based on existing journal practices.	Jessica Lange	completed Workshop given twice in winter 2022 (once to 鲍鱼直播-only editors; second to Canadian student journal editors, including 鲍鱼直播). Workshops slides available for reuse.

Actions

Executive owner(s)

Progress

Workshop for student journal editors on EDI Issues in scholarly publishing.

This workshop describes specific actions journal teams can take to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their publication and teams based on existing journal practices.

Jessica Lange

completed

Workshop given twice in winter 2022 (once to 鲍鱼直播-only editors; second to Canadian student journal editors, including 鲍鱼直播). Workshops slides available for reuse.

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Improving Library Services

Actions	Executive owner(s)	Progress
Gain practical experience with improving web site accessibility and implement lessons learned.	Digital Initiatives	The Gwillim digital exhibit, when launched later in 2022, will be a major step 鲍鱼直播 for the accessibility of McGIll's digital collections. Early planning for Library web site refresh and move from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 is making room for accessibility improvements.

Actions

Executive owner(s)

Progress

Gain practical experience with improving web site accessibility and implement lessons learned.

Digital Initiatives

The Gwillim digital exhibit, when launched later in 2022, will be a major step 鲍鱼直播 for the accessibility of McGIll's digital collections.
Early planning for Library web site refresh and move from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 is making room for accessibility improvements.

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Human Resources

Actions	Executive owner(s)	Progress
In collaboration with the Academic Personnel Office, develop and implement revised procedures for ensuring members of underrepresented groups are present on short lists when hiring librarians. Specific changes might include excluding women from the definition of under-represented groups for librarian hires (since librarianship is a majority female profession), to more effectively target candidates who represent other types of diversity.	Dean's Cabinet	2021-2022听
In partnership with the School of Information Studies, implement a pilot program to recruit, train, and support people of听colour听in the field of librarianship. The pilot will provide funding for 2 Black students as Fellows, and the program if successful will extend to other under-represented groups in the future. Fellows will receive a tuition award in SIS to complete the听MISt听program, a part-time RA position in the Library while enrolled in SIS, and a two-year contract Librarian position following their earning of the听MISt. Initial applications are due January 15, 2023. Get more information.	Dean鈥檚 Cabinet and all units & 鲍鱼直播 School of Information Studies	2022-2023

Actions

Executive owner(s)

Progress

In collaboration with the Academic Personnel Office, develop and implement revised procedures for ensuring members of underrepresented groups are present on short lists when hiring librarians. Specific changes might include excluding women from the definition of under-represented groups for librarian hires (since librarianship is a majority female profession), to more effectively target candidates who represent other types of diversity.

Dean's Cabinet

2021-2022听

In partnership with the School of Information Studies, implement a pilot program to recruit, train, and support people of听colour听in the field of librarianship. The pilot will provide funding for 2 Black students as Fellows, and the program if successful will extend to other under-represented groups in the future. Fellows will receive a tuition award in SIS to complete the听MISt听program, a part-time RA position in the Library while enrolled in SIS, and a two-year contract Librarian position following their earning of the听MISt.

Initial applications are due January 15, 2023. Get more information.

Dean鈥檚 Cabinet and all units & 鲍鱼直播 School of Information Studies

2022-2023

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Professional Development

Actions	Executive owner(s)	Progress
Create professional development opportunities for staff to learn more about implicit bias and systemic racism.	Continuing Education Committee	听
Phase 1:听The library will provide Continuing Education Funding for Interested staff members to attend courses including: 1) Cultural Competence for Librarians; 2) Examining Institutional Racism in Libraries ; 3) Allyship, Anti-Oppression Practices, and Building Inclusive Libraries; 4) Recruiting and Retraining Librarians from Underrepresented Minoritized Groups. A minimum of two panel discussions will be organized in Summer 2021, so that attendees can share their experiences with the wider library community.	听	Spring, summer and fall 2021.
Phase 2:听Develop a monthly reading and discussion group for library staff, focusing on EDI articles.	听	TBC
Phase 3: Hold a Library-wide, in person workshop led by an external facilitator.	听	TBC
Implement a monthly internal talk series that听highlights EDI work done by 鲍鱼直播 Library staff and campus colleagues. The goal is to听share information, build knowledge among library staff, and celebrate work that has been done.听	听

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Cross-unit Collaborations

Actions	Executive owner(s)	Progress
Program to support graduate conducting students in the study and performance of music by composers from underrepresented groups. This 3-year pilot initiative is a collaboration between the Schulich School of Music, the Marvin Duchow Music Library, and its Gertrude Whitley Performance Library. The Program seeks to highlight the study of works by composers from underrepresented groups, in alignment with the University鈥檚 EDI Strategic Plan and Anti-Black Racism Action Plan. It aims to enrich the educational experience of conducting students and acknowledge their potential to bring positive influence and change to musical performance at 鲍鱼直播 and beyond. The successful candidates of the first round will perform works by underrepresented composers including William Grant Still, William L. Dawson, and Ulysses Kay.	Schulich School of Music Marvin Duchow Music Library Gertrude Whitley Performance Library	2022-2025听
The听Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS)听offers听Indigenous undergraduate students from 鲍鱼直播 or other Quebec post-secondary institutions听a unique experiential learning opportunity to conduct research with a 鲍鱼直播 professor, or to work on a project at one of our units 鈥� all while being paid. IMPRESS will be working with 鲍鱼直播 Library to offer an eight week summer听internship opportunity that will provide students with the opportunity to explore academic librarianship by partnering with one of the library鈥檚 four main units: User Services, Digital Initiatives, Collection Services, and Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives (ROAAr).听Specific projects will be designed to best suit the interests and skills of candidates, along with the availability of librarian supervisors. Student will have the chance to work on projects in one or more of the following areas:听 Information Literacy and Research Assistance: instruction, reference services, and creation of user guides Collection Development: resource discovery and collection promotion, including exhibits and displays User Outreach: communication and orientation Knowledge Synthesis: literature, systematic, scoping and other reviews Scholarly Communication: copyright, data management and open access Knowledge Equity and the Free Knowledge Movement: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource Digital Scholarship: digital publishing, data visualization, concept mapping, digital pedagogy, text analysis Innovation Commons: 3D printing, one button recording studio, virtual reality Digital Libraries: digitization and digital preservation Exploration of traditional knowledge labelling in order to increase visibility and access to collection materials Collection Services: Connecting students and faculty to resources for their teaching, learning and research, including acquiring them, cataloguing them, and borrowing them from other institutions.	User Services, Digital Initiatives, Collection Services, and Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives (ROAAr).	听summer 2022 IMPRESS program completed

Actions

Executive owner(s)

Progress

Program to support graduate conducting students in the study and performance of music by composers from underrepresented groups. This 3-year pilot initiative is a collaboration between the Schulich School of Music, the Marvin Duchow Music Library, and its Gertrude Whitley Performance Library. The Program seeks to highlight the study of works by composers from underrepresented groups, in alignment with the University鈥檚 EDI Strategic Plan and Anti-Black Racism Action Plan. It aims to enrich the educational experience of conducting students and acknowledge their potential to bring positive influence and change to musical performance at 鲍鱼直播 and beyond. The successful candidates of the first round will perform works by underrepresented composers including William Grant Still, William L. Dawson, and Ulysses Kay.

Schulich School of Music

Marvin Duchow Music Library

Gertrude Whitley Performance Library

2022-2025听

The听Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS)听offers听Indigenous undergraduate students from 鲍鱼直播 or other Quebec post-secondary institutions听a unique experiential learning opportunity to conduct research with a 鲍鱼直播 professor, or to work on a project at one of our units 鈥� all while being paid. IMPRESS will be working with 鲍鱼直播 Library to offer an eight week summer听internship opportunity that will provide students with the opportunity to explore academic librarianship by partnering with one of the library鈥檚 four main units: User Services, Digital Initiatives, Collection Services, and Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives (ROAAr).听Specific projects will be designed to best suit the interests and skills of candidates, along with the availability of librarian supervisors. Student will have the chance to work on projects in one or more of the following areas:听

Information Literacy and Research Assistance: instruction, reference services, and creation of user guides
Collection Development: resource discovery and collection promotion, including exhibits and displays
User Outreach: communication and orientation
Knowledge Synthesis: literature, systematic, scoping and other reviews
Scholarly Communication: copyright, data management and open access
Knowledge Equity and the Free Knowledge Movement: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource
Digital Scholarship: digital publishing, data visualization, concept mapping, digital pedagogy, text analysis
Innovation Commons: 3D printing, one button recording studio, virtual reality
Digital Libraries: digitization and digital preservation
Exploration of traditional knowledge labelling in order to increase visibility and access to collection materials
Collection Services: Connecting students and faculty to resources for their teaching, learning and research, including acquiring them, cataloguing them, and borrowing them from other institutions.

User Services, Digital Initiatives, Collection Services, and Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art and Archives (ROAAr).

听summer 2022 IMPRESS program completed

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Last updated October 12, 2022

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