Course Information
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Recruiting and Retaining Librarians from Underrepresented Minoritized Groups
$175.00
Dates: March 1 - March 28October 4 - October 31
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course will address recruitment strategies that will improve your chance of attracting a diverse pool of applicants and minimize the influence of unintended biases in the selection process. Of course, hiring is just the first step to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We will also address factors that influence the long term retention of librarians from underrepresented minority groups.
Course Description
We have been discussing the lack of diversity among librarians for decades, but librarianship remains overwhelmingly white. This is at least in part due to the influence of unexamined biases affecting the recruitment of librarians of color, and a failure to retain many of the librarians of color who are hired.
This course will address recruitment strategies that will improve your chance of attracting a diverse pool of applicants and minimize the influence of unintended biases in the selection process. Of course, hiring is just the first step to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We will also address factors that influence the long term retention of librarians from underrepresented minority groups.
Participants will:
- Discuss strategies to minimize the effect of implicit bias in hiring practices
- Discuss strategies to recruit a diverse pool of applicants
- Identify factors that affect your library’s likelihood of retaining librarians from underrepresented minority groups
This course can be taken as one of four courses needed to earn our Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion Skills, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Tarida Anantachai
Tarida Anantachai is the Lead Librarian for the Learning Commons at the Syracuse University Libraries, where she also serves as liaison to her campus’ international student services center, English language institute, and multicultural affairs office. Tarida received her MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include diversity, equity, and inclusion, early career development and mentoring, and outreach programming. Tarida was an ALA Emerging Leader and is an alumna of the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians.
Twanna Hodge
Twanna Hodge (she/her/hers) is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries. She holds a BA in Humanities from the University of the Virgin Islands and an MLIS from the University of Washington. Her research interests are diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues and efforts in the LIS curriculum and workplace, library residencies and fellowships, cultural humility in librarianship, and the retention of minority library staff in librarianship. She is a 2013 Spectrum Scholar and 2018 ALA Emerging Leader.
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