Baildon, Michelle, Dana Hamlin, Czeslaw Jankowski, Rhonda Kauffman, Julia Lanigan, Michelle Miller, Jessica Venlet, and Ann Marie Willer. “Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries.” MIT Libraries, 2017.
Baildon et al. outline economic, socio-political, and cultural systems of power and oppression from and through which collections emerge, as well as ways for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries to address these systemic problems. They recommend four broad strategies to bolster diversity, inclusivity, and social justice (DISJ) across the MIT Libraries: (1) reevaluate their scholarly publication subscriptions and vendors, seek out marginalized vendors, and investigate open access alternatives; (2) revise acquisition policies, acquire marginalized communities’ materials, hire staff trained to work with marginalized communities’ materials, and use inclusive language in material descriptions; (3) partner with the community, support groups advancing DISJ values, and connect with students to promote information sciences; and (4) build an organizational infrastructure for DISJ within the library by promoting DISJ events, providing trainings, celebrating successes, and systematically reviewing policies, procedures, and dependencies to evaluate whether they contribute to or detract from DISJ values.