Residency Interest Group

Hello! As the residency coordinator at my library, I am bringing together a small internal committee to review the purpose and practices of our (diversity) residency and make recommendations for the next iteration. They will all have had experience working with residents in the past and some awareness of the issues with residencies, our campus, our library, etc. I'd also like to give them some context on the latest conversations happening among residents and among coordinators. What articles, presentations, blog posts, twitter threads, etc. have you read recently that might give some helpful insight to this group as we ponder questions like, "what is the purpose of our diversity residency? is it accomplishing what we hoped? are residents having the experience they want/need/deserve? what changes are necessary to improve our residency program?" 
Thanks for any recommendations!
Sara

Hi Sara, 

ACRL RIG has a list of selected readings on their website: https://acrl.ala.org/residency/research/general-resources/

The Lift Up Your Residency Toolkit and presentation may also be helpful (this contains recommended readings and resources as well). 

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Sheila García Mazari
Liaison Librarian
Grand Valley State University
She/Her/Hers,Ella
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 30, 2021 08:45 AM
From: Sara Arnold-Garza
Subject: Residency Readings?

Hello! As the residency coordinator at my library, I am bringing together a small internal committee to review the purpose and practices of our (diversity) residency and make recommendations for the next iteration. They will all have had experience working with residents in the past and some awareness of the issues with residencies, our campus, our library, etc. I'd also like to give them some context on the latest conversations happening among residents and among coordinators. What articles, presentations, blog posts, twitter threads, etc. have you read recently that might give some helpful insight to this group as we ponder questions like, "what is the purpose of our diversity residency? is it accomplishing what we hoped? are residents having the experience they want/need/deserve? what changes are necessary to improve our residency program?"
Thanks for any recommendations!
Sara

Original Message:
Sent: 6/30/2021 10:14:00 PM
From: Sheila García Mazari
Subject: RE: Residency Readings?

Hi Sara, 

ACRL RIG has a list of selected readings on their website: https://acrl.ala.org/residency/research/general-resources/

The Lift Up Your Residency Toolkit and presentation may also be helpful (this contains recommended readings and resources as well). 

------------------------------
Sheila García Mazari
Liaison Librarian
Grand Valley State University
She/Her/Hers,Ella
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: Jun 30, 2021 08:45 AM
From: Sara Arnold-Garza
Subject: Residency Readings?

Hello! As the residency coordinator at my library, I am bringing together a small internal committee to review the purpose and practices of our (diversity) residency and make recommendations for the next iteration. They will all have had experience working with residents in the past and some awareness of the issues with residencies, our campus, our library, etc. I'd also like to give them some context on the latest conversations happening among residents and among coordinators. What articles, presentations, blog posts, twitter threads, etc. have you read recently that might give some helpful insight to this group as we ponder questions like, "what is the purpose of our diversity residency? is it accomplishing what we hoped? are residents having the experience they want/need/deserve? what changes are necessary to improve our residency program?"
Thanks for any recommendations!
Sara

Original Message:
Sent: 6/30/2021 9:46:00 AM
From: Sara Arnold-Garza
Subject: Residency Readings?

Hello! As the residency coordinator at my library, I am bringing together a small internal committee to review the purpose and practices of our (diversity) residency and make recommendations for the next iteration. They will all have had experience working with residents in the past and some awareness of the issues with residencies, our campus, our library, etc. I'd also like to give them some context on the latest conversations happening among residents and among coordinators. What articles, presentations, blog posts, twitter threads, etc. have you read recently that might give some helpful insight to this group as we ponder questions like, "what is the purpose of our diversity residency? is it accomplishing what we hoped? are residents having the experience they want/need/deserve? what changes are necessary to improve our residency program?" 
Thanks for any recommendations!
Sara

Original Message:
Sent: 7/1/2021 11:20:00 AM
From: Staci Ross
Subject: RE: Residency Readings?

Hi Sara,

 

I've found RIG's General Resources page very useful. There are also a few publications we've used in the RIG Assessment Team:

 

• Dr. Jason Alston's 2017 dissertation: Causes Of Satisfaction And Disatisfaction For Diversity Resident Librarians – A Mixed Methods Study Using Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory
• Lorelei Rutledge, Jay Colbert, Anastasia Chiu, and Jason Alston's 2019 book: Developing a residency program : a practical guide for librarians
• 2011 book edited by Zoe Perez and Cindy Gruwell: The new graduate experience : post-MLS residency programs and early career librarianship

 

Also, a colleague shared this great March 21 Twitter thread by the Dr. April Hathcock: How to match 0 Black people in a residency (a thread)

 

Hope this helps,

Staci

Member, RIG Assessment Team

 

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Staci Ross (she/her)

Cataloging/Metadata Librarian

Metadata and Discovery Unit

University of Pittsburgh Library System

str51@pitt.edu

 

Original Message:
Sent: 6/30/2021 9:46:00 AM
From: Sara Arnold-Garza
Subject: Residency Readings?

Hello! As the residency coordinator at my library, I am bringing together a small internal committee to review the purpose and practices of our (diversity) residency and make recommendations for the next iteration. They will all have had experience working with residents in the past and some awareness of the issues with residencies, our campus, our library, etc. I'd also like to give them some context on the latest conversations happening among residents and among coordinators. What articles, presentations, blog posts, twitter threads, etc. have you read recently that might give some helpful insight to this group as we ponder questions like, "what is the purpose of our diversity residency? is it accomplishing what we hoped? are residents having the experience they want/need/deserve? what changes are necessary to improve our residency program?" 
Thanks for any recommendations!
Sara