On May 17th, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg will present on recent survey findings from the Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2020 and will discuss the launch of an anti-racism audit focused on personnel outcomes, perspectives, practices, and policies with University of Delaware and Binghamton University. For more information, please visit this site. 

Abstract:

Racial Justice and Academic Libraries: Leadership for a Way Forward with Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Manager, Surveys and Research, ITHAKA; Trevor A. Dawes, Vice Provost for the Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian, University of Delaware; and Curtis Kendrick, Dean of Libraries, Binghamton University.

Recent national survey findings from Ithaka S+R have served to affirm the desire of academic library leaders to make their organizations more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist. And yet these results also underscore the confidence that many leaders are lacking in having personnel and collections strategies that truly support these objectives. Trevor A. Dawes, Curtis Kendrick, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg will discuss this national study and the steps that the University of Delaware, Binghamton University, and Ithaka S+R are taking to launch an anti-racism audit focused on personnel outcomes, perspectives, practices, and policies.