As an organization dedicated to providing access to resources and skills in information literacy, the Campus Library is committed to performing our functions with an anti-racist lens. Anti-racist work should not only happen in times of national crisis and protest, but should be an inextricable part of our basic functions and mission.
Our broad commitments are as follows:
As we take action on each of these commitments, we will detail it below.
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 are currently engaged in an antiracism audit with an external consultant, and we anticipate that the recommendations from that audit’s report will help us develop our priorities and criteria for updating and revising this statement.
Comments about this statement and committments are welcome and can be submitted to Leslie Hurst, Interim Associate Dean and Library Director, at lhurst@uw.edu
Anonymous submissions can be made using the Library’s feedback form. These submissions are reviewed by the Director, 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.