RAILS Events & Presentations
Upcoming Events
For upcoming events on equity, diversity, and inclusion issues, see the calendar on the Library Directory & Learning Calendar website.
- April 12, 2024, 10-11:30 am, Navigating White Spaces As A BIPOC Library Worker featuring Tracie D. Hall. The event is intended solely for library workers who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or Person of Color. This event will not be recorded. Register for this event.
- April 26, 2024, 9-12:00 pm, Trustee Training: Navigating Difference in Library Boards. Register for this event.
- April 30, 2024, 9:15-10:30 am, Actively Anti-Racist Service to Leisure Readers. This is an in-person event at Stickney-Forest View Public Library. Register for this event
- May 7, 2024 10-noon, Adapting Your Library to Changing Community Needs. This training program combines theoretical knowledge with practical applications, equipping library professionals with the skills needed to adapt to the changing needs of their communities. This comprehensive program covers four key topics crucial for the modern library landscape: library advocacy, community partnerships, libraries as places of healing, and social-emotional services in libraries. Register for this event.
RAILS Board EDI Committee
RAILS Board Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee Meetings - includes agendas and other documents for upcoming and past meetings.
Recordings of Webinars and Other Presentations
Social Justice in Public Libraries from Freedom Lifted
Accessibility
Making Technology Accessible: Creating an Assistive Tools Kit
Belonging & Implicit Bias
Promoting Fairness & Belonging: Insights from Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat
EDI Elements: Cultural Competence
EDI Elements: Identifying Microaggressions
Collections / Cataloging
Inclusive Cataloging: Maintaining Your Momentum
Inclusive Cataloging: Maintaining Your Momentum
Equity in Collections: Audits, Weeding, Purchasing, & More!
Diversity Audits for Library Collections
Building Accessible Library Collections for Individuals with Disabilities presented by Renee Grassi
Developing Responsive Collections for LGBTQ+ Patrons of All Ages
Auditing Your Collection for Diversity and Inclusion
Building African American, African, and Caribbean Collections
Authentic Voices in Children’s and Teen Literature: What’s Socioeconomics Got to Do with It?
Digital Equity
Design for Access-Making Online Content Accessible
Collaborating for Digital Equity and Inclusion
Putting the "U" in Digital Equity
LGBTQ+
Facilitating Gender-Inclusive Librarianship through Centering Queer Communities
You Belong @ Your Library: Welcoming and Serving the LGBTQIA Community
Recruitment & Retention
Other EDI Recordings
Sparks Podcast Episode 28: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Becoming An Upstander: An Introduction
Trauma Informed Services for Spanish Speaking Patrons
RAILS Online Roundtable: DEI Programming During a Pandemic
Other Events
Upcoming Opportunities
- For upcoming events on equity, diversity, and inclusion issues, see the calendar on the Library Directory & Learning Calendar website.
- EDI and Social Justice Opportunities (maintained by ALA's Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services) Check here for upcoming opportunities.
Recorded Events and Presentations
- ILA Noon Network: Balancing Equity and Freedom in Collection Development Policies - Recording
- ILA Noon Network: Breaking Canons and Building Community: Zines, DEI, and the Academic Library - Recording
- ILA Noon Network: Are You Ready to Celebrate Rainbow Book Month? - Recording
- Webinar Series on Collection Development to Support EDI
- ALA's Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services EDI & Social Justice Opportunities
- Radical Cataloging: Using alternative subject headings locally to promote inclusiveness and diversity (View Recording)
- Combating Racism in Libraries: Creating Spaces to Educate and Inform Our Communities, New York Library Association webinar series recorded.
- Strengthen Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practice Through Self-Paced Learning (View recording) Will need to log into WebJunction
- Receptive to Race: Normalizing the Discussion of Race with Children in Libraries (View recording)
- ILA Noon Network: We Can Walk Together: Creating Meaningful Dialogue on Race in our Communities (View recording)
- Project READY: Reimagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth. A free online professional development curriculum.
- LibraryReads in Conversations: Actively Anti-Racist Reader's Advisory. View recording.
- Race Forward – Race Forward works with communities, organizations, and sectors to build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.
- ALA's Office for Diversity, Literary, and Outreach Services Webinar Archives
- Luna Jiminez Institute Upcoming Events
- Public Library Association On Demand Webinar: Understanding Power, Identity, and Oppression in the Public Library