Welcome to the EDI resources page.  Our aim is to highlight existing and ongoing efforts within our sector, and the wider public context, to advance equality, diversity and inclusion.  We hope you find these resources informative and useful. 

Read

• Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, Edited by Sofia Y. Leung, Jorge R. López-McKnight (The MIT Press) 
  https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5114/Knowledge-JusticeDisr...

• BAME staff experiences of academic and research libraries, Dr Mohammed Ishaq and Dr Asifa Maria Hussain (SCONUL)
  https://www.sconul.ac.uk/publication/bame-staff-experiences-of-academic-...

• Tackling Racism on Campus
  Resources, designed to help tackle the issue of racism on university and college campuses,produced, funded and supported by the Scottish Funding Council, working in partnership with HE equalities organisation, Advance HE, and created by a steering group of experts from the Scottish further and higher education sectors.
  http://www.sfc.ac.uk/access-inclusion/equality-diversity/race/race-equal...

Watch

• 100 Black Women Professors NOW launch event, 2 June 2021
  The 100 Black Women Professors (100BWP NOW) initiative recognises the specific experiences of black women and looks to use this programme to culturally sensitize institutions and colleagues towards challenging existing systems and structures to drive change. Watch the 100BWP NOW launch even

• Library, information & knowledge professionals as anti-racism advocates - presentation from ALN Conference, 8 September 2021
  Josh Sendall, Lancaster University
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ljFN7XocOuocLS56yilf98IjCzBgomAa/view

Attend

• SCONUL BAME Forum
  The SCONUL BAME Forum is an open forum for BAME staff working in academic and research libraries to network and share information.  Watch this space for upcoming events.

  Past events

  • 14 September: SCONUL BAME group inaugural Allies Forum
    Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff members and their allies were invited to come together to discuss what it means to be an ally and to share best practice and experiences. Jess Gardner, University Librarian at Cambridge University provided the opening address and members from the SCONUL community shared case studies of successful partnerships. 
     
  • 9 February: SCONUL BAME group open forum

• Wikimedia UK - Connected Heritage webinar: sharing cultural heritage online, 8, 14, 15 or 21 October
  Webinar hosted by Wikimedia UK to help heritage and cultural organisations share their content through Wikipedia and its sister sites. They particularly would like to invite partners who share their commitment to increasing the engagement and representation of marginalised people and subjects. To sign up, please select from the following dates and register via Eventbrite. You need only attend one webinar.  Any questions can be directed to connectedheritage@wikimedia.org.uk

  - Thursday 14 October at 2pm
  - Friday 15 October at 10am
  - Thursday 21 October 2pm