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Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Faculty Body: The Role of Microaggressions & Incivility
(2014-02-18)
Are we doing enough to recruit and retain a diverse faculty body? Despite a variety of efforts to increase underrepresented populations within the professoriate, diversity gains remain minimal. Presenters will introduce ...
Using Mindfulness to Cope with Microaggressions and Workplace Stress
(2018-10-01)
People from marginalized identity groups frequently experience microaggressions, verbal and non-verbal messages that are invalidating or demeaning. Librarians, even those working in the supposedly progressive and liberal ...
From Hostile to Inclusive: Strategies for Improving the Racial Climate of Academic Libraries
(2018-11-02)
Despite the presence of programs such as the American Library Association (ALA) Spectrum Scholarship and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, Library and Information Science ...
"Race is a social construct and does not exist": What Academic Librarians Have to Say about Racism in the Profession
(2014-06-25)
This poster is a qualitative analysis of comments received on a survey of academic librarians. The survey, which used the construct of racial microaggressions--subtle, denigrating messages delivered to people of color--was ...
Peer review of teaching: Best practices for a non-programmatic approach
(2015-02-16)
Many academic librarians who provide library instruction have never received formal training in educational theory and methods. In an effort to bridge this gap and improve the teaching skills of instruction librarians, ...
Do You See What I See? Academic Librarians' Experiences of Racism
(2013-04-25)
This research project uses the framework of racial microaggressions to investigate academic librarians’ experiences and observations of racism in the profession.
The poster presents preliminary findings of a survey of ...
Open Access Publishing, AUrora, and You
(2013-05-07)
Jaena Alabi (Libraries), Jo Mackiewicz (Technical & Professional Communication), and Aaron Trehub (Libraries) discuss the benefits of open-access publishing through AUrora, Auburn’s institutional repository. Among the ...
Racial Microaggressions and Academic Libraries
(2013-04-25)
The abundance of articles, books, and conference papers on diversity in librarianship tend to focus on a few recurring themes: depictions of minorities in children’s literature, developing multicultural collections, or ...
Academic Librarians' Experiences & Observations of Microaggressions
(2013-04-25)
In this poster, the researcher will present results from a survey of academic librarians about their experiences of racial microaggressions. The research presented in this poster—results from a survey of minority and ...
The Power of Observation: How Librarians can Benefit from the Peer Review of Teaching--Even Without a Formal Program
(2013-08-27)
Many academic librarians who provide library instruction have never received formal training in pedagogical theories and methods. In an effort to improve the teaching skills of instruction librarians, some libraries have ...