Category Archives: News

While Black History Month is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the many past achievements of Black people, ViMLoC would like to spend each week highlighting some of the current Black library professionals in our network.   This week, meet … Continue reading →

Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference is coming up this week from February 2-6, 2021! Since the event is virtual this year, a lot more library staff across Canada can gain from it now and over the next six months. We’ve … Continue reading →

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 →