Category Archives: News

From ARL: The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC ’16), co-sponsored by the UCLA Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), will take place on the UCLA campus on August 10-13, 2016. The NDLC ’16 Program Committee invites you … Continue reading →

Hi all, if you have published anything on the topic of visible minorities and would like that added to the bibliography page please send me an email with the citation. I will be happy to post it on the website. … Continue reading →

Hello everyone, The 2nd C-EBLIP Fall Symposium: Librarians as Researchers will be held on Wed. Oct. 14, 2015 at the University of Saskatchewan campus. Registration is complimentary and includes a one-day conference, breakfast, lunch, and breaks. Please consider submitting a … Continue reading →

From Megan Watson, ACRL Diversity Committee: The ACRL Diversity Committee is working on revising and updating its Diversity Standards, developed by the previously named Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee and approved by ACRL in 2012. The Standards intend to “provide … Continue reading →

From ARL: ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 286, a special issue focusing on fostering diversity and inclusion in research library operations and culture. The three articles in this issue of RLI cover recruitment and retention of staff … Continue reading →

Here is a new book that might be of interest to ViMLoC members. Internationalization and the North American University Library  By Karen Bordonaro. Lanhman, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 184 pp. $75.00 (hardback). ISBN 9780810891838. From the publisher: “This book … Continue reading →

Norda Majekodunmi, ViMLoC member and co-moderator,  recently launched the Pushing Buttons, Pushing Stories  digital archive. “This exhibit explores some of the narratives behind selected political buttons from the Jean Augustine collection housed in the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Maha Kumaran, past co-moderator for ViMLoC, and her co-editor Deborah Lee for their recent publication of Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada. I believe this is the first such book of narratives from Canadian visible … Continue reading →

The Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) Network was busy at the 2014 CLA Conference (May 28-31, 2014) in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. ViMLoC had its first CLA social at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Wednesday, May 28, following the … Continue reading →

ARL is offering travel awards of up to $2,000 each for five individuals from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to attend the 2014 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held August 4–6 on the University … Continue reading →