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ACRL EBSS Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

Welcome! We hope this libguide will provide a toolbox of resources for promoting EDI practices in the EBSS community and in the work of EBSS library workers.

Fighting Implicit Bias & Microaggressions

This page lists tools that EBSS library workers can wield to battle everyday implicit bias and microaggressions within their library organizations.

Keeping Up With…Implicit Bias (Tarica LaBossiere, Endia Paige, and Beau Steenken, ACRL)
Covers the impact of implicit bias on library organizations & strategies for overcoming bias in recruitment & retention; personal work habits; and supervision.
Where Do We Talk about Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion? Staff Meetings, Of Course! (Jo Schofield, ALA Intersections)
Calls for library workers to allocate time for DEIA discussions in their internal meetings. Offers ideas on ground rules and pre-meeting work.
Academic Librarians and Social Justice: A Call to Microactivism (Rachel Lockman,C & RL News)
Countering microaggressions in the everyday life of libraries.
Minimizing and addressing implicit bias in the workplace (Shamika Dalton and Michele Villagran, CRL News)
Discussion of implicit bias in the library workplace.
“Don’t Touch My Hair or But You Don’t Seem Gay!: Microaggressions in the Library Workplace” (Lori Thompson & Lindsey M. Harper,, Marshall University)
Identifying & addressing microaggressions in libraries.

Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions at Work (Ella F. Washington, Harvard Business Review)
Considerations for approaching a coworker about their microaggression. What to do if you microaggress against a coworker.