Library Diversity Plans

Why plan? You may wonder about the value of planning. Planning does help organizations improve. See what others have accomplished and how they describe their success.

View sample plans from other organizations. See how other libraries’ goals and policies may help you as you develop your own.

Read more offers a few more examples of diversity plans and some useful tools.

Why Plan?

• ALA on Equity Access
  ALA Office of Outreach and Literacy Services history and explanation of equity access by Kathleen de la Peña McCook

  http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/missionhistory/keyactionareas/equityaction/rockswhirlpool.cfm

• Developing an Organizational Change Plan in Diversity
  Article describing the who-what-where-and-why of planning from a management perspective

  http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/recruit/diversity/change-management/Developing-Organizational-Change-Plan-Diversity.asp

• diversity @ work
  Articles from this corporate site showing benefits of implementing diversity initiatives

  http://www.diversityatwork.net/EN/en_implementing.htm

• Diversity Plan & Resources from Ocean County Libraries
  Comprehensive site for public library plan and process–including analysis of 5-year process, sample staff programming ideas and ‘diversity cookbook’ for program ideas

  http://theoceancountylibrary.org/About/Diversity-Plan.htm

Sample Plans

• Drake University diversity plan
  Sample comprehensive plan that includes nondiscrimination policy

  http://www.lib.drake.edu/site/aboutCowles/CowlesLibraryDiversityPlanFeb2006reg.doc

• Seattle Public Library Diversity Policy
  Search for all of Seattle’s policies, including sample access policies, at WebJunction

  http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=about_policies_diversity

• University of Oregon Library Diversity Committee Plan
  Based on larger University plan, as is the case with many academic libraries, this action plan speaks to staff development and recruitment as goals

  http://libweb.uoregon.edu/diversity/initiatives.html

Read More

• Diversity Climate Surveys: Worth the Effort
  Article including results of an internal survey at a university

  http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/vol7no4/disterhoft.cfm

• Using Diversity Climate Surveys: A Toolkit for Diversity Management (pdf)
  For measuring internal climate toward diversity, an Australian government toolkit and sample survey

  http://www.managementmarketing.unimelb.edu.au/mcib/include/diversity/USING%20DIVERSITY%20CLIMATE%20SURVEYS%20-%20A%20TOOLKIT.pdf

• IFLA Diversity Plan
  Four-point plan for association

  http://www.ifla.org/VII/s32/annual/sp32.htm

• University of Tennessee’s Plan Benchmarks (pdf)
  Draft plan for internal diversity includes outcomes & benchmarks

  http://oed.admin.utk.edu/docs/library_draft.pdf