1. Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services Town Hall
Friday, January 21, 2017

2. Agenda
Welcome
Updates from the Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services
Racial Healing Framework
Grounding Assumptions
Facilitated Conversations (small group)
Facilitated Conversation (large group)
Next Steps

3. Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services Staff
Jody Gray
Director
Kristin Lahurd
Literacy Officer
Gwendolyn Prellwitz
Assistant Director
Zina Clark
Program Coordinator, American Dream Adult Literacy Initiative
John Amundsen
Program Officer, Outreach and Communications

4. Updates from the Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services
Our mission is to support library and information science workers in creating safe, responsible and all-inclusive spaces that serve and represent the entire community. To accomplish this, we decenter power and privilege by facilitating conversations around access and identity as they impact the profession and those we serve. We use a social justice framework to inform library and information science workers’ development of resources. We strive to create an association culture where these concerns are incorporated into everybody’s everyday work.

5. Outreach/Communications
Intersections (blog)
Libraries Respond (website)
Monthly newsletter

6. Spectrum
the full impact cannot be defined at this time without further information and analysis. BARC will revisit the financial impact as part of the implementation of the Task Force on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion's (TFEDI) Recommendation 6.1 calling for the development of a long-term library profession recruitment plan, which will include the Spectrum program.
Spectrum Scholarship Resolution-The resolution was sent to BARC to determine if there would be an financial impact.
BARC met on October 19, 2016
BARC identified that there will be a financial impact to the resolution presented

7. Literacy Round 5 Longitudinal Study LibraryThing Collection
American Dream Adult Literacy Initiative
Adult Literacy Through Libraries: An Action Agenda
Round 5
Longitudinal Study
LibraryThing Collection

8. Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
EDI Report Follow Up
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Implementation Working Group
61 Recommendations
Over half were referred to ODLOS
See EDI report available at Midwinter Conference
Co-Chair - Melissa Cardenas Dow
Co-Chair and Committee on Diversity Representative - Martin Garnar
Conference Committee Representative - Hannah Lee
Member at Large - Max Macias
Executive Board Representative - Mike Marlin
Committee on Education Representative - Shannon McClintock Miller
Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services Advisory Committee Representative- Lessa Pelayo-Lozada
Member at Large- LaJuan Pringle
Training, Orientation, and Leadership Development Committee Representative- Leslie Scott
Librarians Build Communities MIG Representative - Sara Zettervall
ALA Staff Liaison- Jody Gray, Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services

9. Partnership: Project Welcome
Project Welcome: Libraries Serving Refugees and Asylum Seekers Summit
Partners
Monday February 6, 2017
Chicago, IL
Mortenson Center at the University of Illinois Library
ALA International Relations Office & Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services
FUNDING From IMLS

10. Partnership: Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Pursuit of racial equity, an unprecedented Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation will help communities embrace racial healing and uproot the unconscious and conscious beliefs in racial hierarchy.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
ALA Public Programs Office & Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services

11. Racial Healing Framework
It is a strategy that moves toward racial equity, designed to raise awareness of unconscious biases and inequities to help communities heal.
It does this by promoting racial healing while addressing structural racism and uprooting the false ideology of a hierarchy of human value.
The framework that ODLOS is working from was developed through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation enterprise.
NOTE: Although, the framework that we use specifically calls out race, the Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services recognizes that these same concepts apply to all marginalized identities.

12. ODLOS Town Hall Grounding Assumptions
The work of equity, diversity, and inclusion is about creating community, which involves building trust through careful listening, respectful disagreement and taking risks.
We are all doing the best we can.
Growth and learning can be uncomfortable; remember it’s ok to make mistakes – we all do.
Individuals and organizations can-and-do grow and change, but it does not happen overnight.
Practice Self Awareness; think about when you’re speaking up or when you are silent
This work is everyone’s responsibility
There are no “quick fixes,” and we don’t have to fix everything.
Take care of yourself. Practice forgiveness and letting go, so you can sustain yourself in this work.
Adapted from Jamie Washington Consulting Group

13. Small Group Discussion
3 Questions
1 question per table
Each table has a facilitator
Questions are repeated at different tables
30 minutes for small group discussion

14. Questions
Reflecting on the events of this past year, how has ALA been responsive in a way that resonated with or satisfied you? And in what ways has ALA not responded in a satisfying manner? How has either response impacted your professional role?
Do you feel served by your local professional networks in relation to equity, diversity, or inclusion?
If yes, what does this look like?
If no, what role can ALA play in filling this gap?
A common request that ALA offices and divisions hear is that there is a need to create space or opportunity for individuals to share their experiences (in regards to equity, diversity, inclusion, or social justice). Over the years this has led to the creation of many tools, spaces, and programs (ONE example is the Diversity Member Interest Group) that do not get much traffic or traction. Where do you feel or see a disconnect in these actions? How might we address that disconnect?

15. Large Group Discussion

16. Opportunities to continue these conversations at Midwinter
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Implementation Working Group
ALA Town Hall: Library Advocacy and Core Values in Uncertain Times
Meeting
Saturday, January 21
8:30am-10:00am
GWCC B209
Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Recommendations: An Equitable Future for ALA and the Profession
Sunday, January 22
3:00pm-4:00pm
GWCC A403
Sunday, January 22
9:30am-11:00am
GWCC Thomas Murphy Ballroom 3-4

17. Continue the Conversation
Feel free to stay!
Room is available from 2-3pm
ODLOS staff will be available for conversations
Want to continue the conversation?
Feel more comfortable with one-on-one conversations?
Need time to recharge, meditate, breathe, before going to your next Midwinter event?