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Library Services
Our commitments
- Review the Reading List Audit tool in partnership with students and academic staff to ensure it enables the change we need to see in our collections
- Work with HR to run development sessions on unconscious bias with Library & Cultural Services staff
- Invite BAME Ambassadors and BAME student society into the Library to meet with the Leadership team, helping us to co-create an inclusive digital and physical service
Our Progress
Review the Reading List Audit tool in partnership with students and academic staff to ensure it enables the change we need to see in our collections
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To be completed by June 2023
Training staff on Unconscious Bias
- We are on track with this workstream as of 9 March 82% of Library & Cultural Services staff have completed the Understanding Unconscious bias training in Moodle.
Invite BAME Ambassadors and BAME student society into the Library to meet with the Leadership team, helping us to co-create an inclusive digital and physical service
- The library has made contact with the BAME ambassadors and invited them to collaborate on an event they hosted at the poetry library. They have also discussed plans to meet with the ambassadors to get their opinions on what they’d like to see from the library.
Other completed tasks
- Define project objectives and parameters
- Define current aims and objectives for the reading list audit tool and write them into project briefing notes for use with key stakeholders (Include what skills they will develop because of participating.)
- Design feedback mechanism/s
- Devise focus group workshop and plan for sampling sessions
Next steps
- Recruitment of library associates, review what’s been done in other institutions and then conduct focus group on audit tool with key stakeholders (e.g. student reps, BAME Ambassadors) and finalise with a report including recommendations.
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