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UWB/CC Campus Library Commitments to Anti-Racism: Staff Development and Training

In order to be an anti-racist institution, our staff must also be committed to anti-racist work and training. We commit, as a staff, to collectively engage in ongoing anti-racism training and education.

Our broad commitment is as follows: 

  • As a staff, collectively engage in ongoing anti-racism training and education.

As we take action on this commitment, we will detail it below.

As a staff, collectively engage in ongoing anti-racism training and education.

Summer 2020

  • Our Community Reads and Social Justice Teams began a series of bi-weekly staff reading and discussion events around social justice and anti-racist issues and how they relate to our work within the library. 

Fall 2020

  • Our Access Services team added a standing agenda item to our meetings to report on EDI work, committees, and resources.

Notice

We need to update and revise this Solidarity Statement, written in 2020, based on learning and activity that Campus Library staff have undertaken since then. We recently engaged in an antiracism audit with an external consultant, and we are working through the recommendations from that audit’s report to develop our priorities and criteria for updating and revising this statement.

Contact Us

Comments about this statement and committments are welcome and can be submitted to Richard Lewis, Associate Dean of Libraries UW Bothell and Cascadia College Library, at rlewis88@uw.edu.

Anonymous submissions can be made using the Library’s feedback form. These submissions are reviewed by the Associate Dean, the Head of Public Services, Head of Collections & Course Support Services, and the Budget & Operations Administrator. Comments are forwarded to other library and campus staff if the content is relevant to their work.