Hi all,
I would like to recommend a recent article written by my colleagues at the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College library.
Citation: Lazzaro, A. E., Mills, S., Garrard, T., Ferguson, E., Watson, M., & Ellenwood, D. (2014). Cultural competency on campus: Applying ACRL’s Diversity Standards. College & Research Libraries News, 75(6), 332-335.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/25566
Abstract:
The ACRL Diversity Committee released the "Diversity Standards: Cultural Competency for Academic Libraries" in 2012. With strong support from our administration and clear guidelines from the standards, the University of Washington (UW)-Bothell and Cascadia Community College Campus Library Diversity Team formed in the autumn of 2012, concerned with forging authentic connections based on shared values and experiences among team members, library staff, and our community as a whole. This article describes our consensus-centered model, the design process and content of our trainings, our assessment philosophy and methods, and our relationship-building focus on campus.
There are some examples of trainings and workshops that were guided by the ACRL diversity standards. I love how they took a standard like "Cultural awareness of self and others" and developed a training that included a demographics "guessing game" to help us understand our campus demographics and a "cultural shield" activity to explore our individual cultural backgrounds.
Please feel free to contact the authors directly if you have any questions or feedback, or comment here.
Best,
Nia Lam
Spectrum 2005
nlam@uwb.edu