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Sunday, February 20, 2022

The Matthew Effect and the Digital Fault Lines of Learning

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I confess that I’ve started so many MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that I’ve forgotten how many I actually completed, which is likel...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Racial Capitalism and the Inequity of Merit

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Sylvia Vong’s Not a token! A discussion on racial capitalism and its impact on academic librarians and libraries  is such an important piece...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

The Homophiliasm of Hiring - Are You The Right Fit?

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I recently came across a terrific book by Mathew Syed, Rebel Ideas , which suggests that individual intelligence is not enough to tackle rea...
Monday, January 31, 2022

"The Art of Fairness" - Simple, Fair Decency Should Rule the Workplace

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A wise colleague once reminded me that as a manager, you inevitably need to sacrifice ideals in order to survive the bureaucracy. Perhaps th...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

The Myth of Equity? A Book Review and a Further Discussion of the "Dirty Dozen"

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The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities is an important title about EDI in Canadian higher education. As a...
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Book Review "Die With Zero" by Bill Perkins

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Happy New Year and 2022. I’ve made a New Year’s resolution for reviewing more titles beginning this year. There have been some life-chan...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Decolonizing the Academy

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To decolonize is to challenge what is not working, how to challenge my practice. The history of higher education has been shaped by coloni...
Monday, November 29, 2021

The Contested Space in Diversity

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Audrey Lorde has said that “much of Western European history conditions us to see human differences in simplistic opposition to each other” ...
Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Retention of Racialized Academic Librarians in the U.S. and Canada

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This research team invites academic librarians that identify as racialized or members of the BIPOC community to participate in our survey re...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Equity and Inclusion at the BookNet Canada's Tech Forum

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  One of the outcomes of Covid has been the migration of in-person events to online.   I've enjoyed my fair share of conferences and wor...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Turning from "Being to Doing" Anti-Racism As Action at Work by Iones Damasco

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I highly respect Ione T Damasco for the work she's done in the area of equity, diversity, and inclusion.   Her talk urges us to view ant...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Reviewing "Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory"

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I’ve been working with the Visible Minority Librarians Network of Canada (ViMLoC) in creating a journal club that highlights pieces in the B...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

It's Time To #DecolonizeLIS

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I was invited to take part in a panel as part of the Canadian Academic Research Libraries (CARL) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion webinar se...
Monday, June 07, 2021

Outreach and Programming: A Three-Pronged Model to Community Engagement

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There's much in the research literature about community engagement and outreach for libraries, some of it interesting case studies of pa...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Making Non-Western Knowledge Digitally Accessible through Community Engagement

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Karim Tharani's  Shifting Established Mindsets and Praxis in Libraries: Five Insights for Making Non-Western Knowledge Digitally Accessi...