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Equity, Diversity, Accessibility, and Inclusion: Welcome!

Main Research Guide of Syracuse University Libraries Diversity and Inclusion Team

Libraries are for Everyone

Table of contents

"Welcome" (this page): recent SU announcements,  language tools, and selected books, videos, and web resources.

"Library Resources":  library services, selected print and electronic materials, databases, and research guides. Also includes information for international students and veterans.

"Campus and Local Resources":  Syracuse University resources, student groups, articles about campus, local community resources. For additional information for international students and veterans, please see also the "Library Resources" page.

"Diversity in Higher Ed":  news from Schools and Colleges and around SU campus, teaching resources, national organizations (administration, faculty, student), articles, statistics

"Taking Action / Getting Help": report bias and access concerns, get support, take action.

"Diversity for Library Staff":  committee information, organizations, articles, training resources

The SUL Diversity and Inclusion Team presents this guide as a springboard to recognizing, appreciating, and valuing all our diversities, without necessarily agreeing with or endorsing everything contained.

On this day: A History of Racial Injustice

Books and E-books! ...find more on Library Resources tab above

Making and Unmaking Disability

In this brave new theoretical approach to human physicality, Julie E. Maybee traces societal constructions of disability and impairment through Western history along three dimensions of embodiment: the personal body, the interpersonal body, and the institutional body.

Kinds Come First - Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures

In Kinds Come First, the distinguished psychologist Jerome Kagan argues that--contrary to the common assumption--age, gender, social class, and ethnicity affect the outcomes of psychological measures, and he questions the popular practice that uses statistical procedures to remove the effects of these categories to confirm a favored predictor-outcome relation.

Land Acknowledgment

Syracuse University Libraries would like to acknowledge with respect the Onondaga Nation, firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the indigenous peoples on whose ancestral lands Syracuse University now stands.

Syracuse University Libraries Statement

"The Libraries strive to offer inclusive and accessible physical and virtual spaces. We aim to be an equitable and inclusive organization, where all staff are supported, heard and encouraged to share ideas, and where all library users feel welcome, safe and respected as they follow their own academic and creative pursuits." (Read full statement here.)

David Seaman, Ph.D, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, Syracuse University Libraries

Language Tools

A Language Guide from the Disability Cultural Center here at Syracuse University.  The webpage also contains an extensive list of resources on the topic of "disability language and etiquette."

Selected websites and blogs

Videos

A series of very short documentaries, "A conversation on race", from the New York Times features numerous people speaking about their personal experiences.  Some videos contain words that may offend viewers. Note: if you have a problem loading videos, try a different browser.

 

Below are just a few of the thousands of videos from TED.com. We offer these as starting points for reflection, and do not necessarily agree with or endorse the viewpoints of the speakers. Captions in multiple languages are available by clicking on the small box with three dots once the video starts.  Additional videos can be found under "Library Resources."