One of our most important roles as a library is as a space for community to gather, discuss, and learn. We are committed to using that role to create space for important conversations that acknowledge and confront racism and oppression, and allow people in our community to learn more about these problems and move towards action against them.
Our broad commitments are as follows:
As we take actions to reach these commitments we will detail them 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.
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Land Acknowledgment: The University of Washington Bothell & Cascadia College Campus Library occupies Land that has been inhabited by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. Specifically, this campus is located on Sammamish Land from which settler colonists forcibly removed Coast Salish Peoples to reservations in the mid-19th century. Today, descendants of the Sammamish are members of several Coast Salish communities.