The IDEA Committee is happy to host Dr. Maha Kumaran for a webinar on May 6, 2024 at 2pm. Dr. Kumaran completed her PhD in 2023 on the topic of equity in Canadian academic library leadership. For her dissertation, she interviewed three groups of participants – marginalized librarians (primary participants); their allies (secondary participants); and Canadian library leaders (expert participants).
At this session, Dr. Kumaran will share her findings about allyship – what helped marginalized librarians and how allies can help their colleagues.
Join the MiALA IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility) Committee and the MiALA Instruction and Information Literacy Interest Group to revisit and continue our discussion of Sophia Leung's article, "The Futility of Information Literacy & EDI: Toward What?" https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/25579/33486 which examines the parallels between one-shot library instruction and one-off EDI workshops.
Everyone is welcome to attend, whether or not you were able to join the initial conversation in January. After a brief review of the main points of the article, we will discuss how these insights can be applied in different institutions and disciplines, and whether the article or the previous discussion has created change to our instruction practices.
Join the Health Sciences IG to discuss current topics and challenges in health sciences librarianship. In June our topic is a conference recap and end-of-the-year wrap-up.