The State of Diversity

Josey, E. J.

doi:10.1300/j120v21n45_02

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“…E. J. Josey (1994) articulated two imperatives that we are only just beginning to explore more than twenty years later: 1) organizations must "begin to urge the employees to value diversity and provide staff awareness training to sensitize and change the mindset of the library workforce" (8); and 2) "it is imperative that the formal education of future librarians should include the importance of cultural diversity" (10). Regular and adaptive antioppression training for library staff as well as embedding tenets of diversity and equity in LIS education program outcomes and accreditation standards are not only good action-oriented initiatives, but also spaces in which the interrogation of language can also be specifically introduced and practiced.…”

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Language, Power, and Oppression in the LIS Diversity Void

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2018

Library Trends

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This article explores the underinterrogated role of language and its relationship to power and oppression in the proliferation of discussion and dearth of action with regard to diversity in library and information science. Using critical discourse analysis as a framework, the article considers the institutional language practices that, without critical interrogation, establish and perpetuate hegemonic power structures and naturalize systems of oppression, creating a significant barrier to the goals of equity and meaningful diversity within the library and information science field. Diversity Discussion: Variations on a Thirty-Year Theme The context in which diversity is addressed in organizations is one in which there is likely avoidance of direct communication and attempts to depersonalize the concept, among the other considerations that are likely to limit the fulfillment of diversity-related goals.

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Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning

confidence: 99%