Category Archives: News

Brittani Sterling, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, and James Cheng from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are conducting a study to explore what the definition of a mid-career academic librarian is and how the experiences of mid-career academic librarians of color … Continue reading →

The Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) Network conducted the previous comprehensive survey on visible minority librarians in 2013. The Network would like to conduct this survey again to examine the changes in the library landscape regarding visible minority librarians in … Continue reading →

Each year the Ontario Library Association’s Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Committee presents bursaries to assist culturally diverse library staff across Ontario to attend Super Conference. This year, there are two bursaries available that will cover the full registration costs for the … Continue reading →

The British Columbia Academic Libraries Section (BCALS) recently hosted their 2020 Winter Event focused on combating racism and addressing racial issues in academic libraries. The event featured a discussion with the following diverse panel participants: Norda Bell: Associate Librarian, York … Continue reading →

We are proud to announce that ViMLoC members Cecilia Tellis (University of Ottawa), Maha Kumaran (University of Saskatchewan), and Victoria Ho (University of Manitoba) are winners of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Research in Librarianship Grant fund! Their … Continue reading →

The Visible Minority Librarians of Canada Network (ViMLoC) stands with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) in condemning violence and racism towards Black people and all People of Colour. ViMLoC endorses BCALA’s May 28 statement condemning the … Continue reading →

In honour of Asian Heritage month, the ALA’s Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ODLODS) and the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) recently presented this free webinar “Confronting Xenophobia and Supporting Asian and Asian/Pacific American Communities during COVID-19”. The webinar … Continue reading →

In 2018 we ran ViMLoC’s second session of our mentorship program. We were overwhelmed by the amount of people who applied that we realized the importance of this program. As such, we are happy to announce our third run of … Continue reading →

ViMLoC is proud to announce that two of our own have been selected as fellows for the Association of Research Libraries’ (ARL) Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP). Maha Kumaran and Cecilia Tellis from ViMLoC were selected, as well as … Continue reading →