The group met 7-10 times this reporting period.
Recent Activities
First Activity
Presented three regional trainings across the country. The trainings were continuously updated.
Additionally, task force members planned six regional trainings for 2020.
Meets PLA’s strategic goals for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice, Leadership, Transformation
Second Activity
Task force members were organized into subcommittees to support work including regional training, creating content, and writing articles for library publications.
Meets PLA’s strategic goals for Advocacy and Awareness, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Third Activity
Wrote first article in Public Libraries series and planned subsequent monthly articles.
Meets PLA’s strategic goals for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Fourth Activity
Appointing member to joint PLA/ACRL/ODLOS/ARL Building Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity Framework which kicked off in February
Meets PLA’s strategic goals for Advocacy and Awareness, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Fifth Activity
Developing webinar that focuses on building capacity around EDISJ by learning to use the GARE Racial Equity Tool.
Meets PLA’s strategic goals for Advocacy and Awareness, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice, Leadership
What will your group be working on for the next six months?
Finalizing training content, promoting trainings, looking at other training delivery models, and writing PL articles, developing digital content for PL Online.
Does the group have any policy recommendations, ideas with financial impact, or other items to bring to the PLA Board for discussion or action
Not at this time.
Do you have any suggestions for future products or resources (excluding conference programs) to be developed based on your group’s work?
Stretch goal discussion topics have included: collaboration with progressive journalists, collating and promoting evaluation strategies for library EDISJ efforts; convening library directors specifically; starting to work with library schools, providing additional webinars to continue learning for regional training attendees.
Are there other PLA/ALA committees your group might collaborate with to benefit the work of all?
ALA ODLOS Advisory Committee, BCALA, ALA Council Committee on Diversity,.
Have there been any issues related to meeting participation/attendance for any of the group’s members?
Yes (if yes, PLA will contact you for more information)
Is there anything PLA could have provided during this time that would have helped your group with its work?
It was challenging to have four committees meeting in the same room. Additionally, the committee meeting time conflicted with the PLA Board meeting.
Submitted by Lois Langer Thompson and Christina Fuller-Gregory on 03/18/2020