Date
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Session Type
Poster
Name
An assessment of sustainable recruitment practices at Canadian research libraries
Description

Despite an awareness that the library profession is lacking in racial diversity, the representation in libraries has mostly remained the same throughout the past three decades, with many citing the lack of diverse candidates applying for librarian roles. Potential barriers that have been identified to explain the lack of diverse librarian candidates are recruitment efforts and hiring practices. To address this, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) formed their equity, diversity, and inclusion wording group (EDIWG) in 2019 with the intent to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research libraries. As part of their work, in December 2020, EDIWG released a document called “Strategies and Practices for Hiring and Retaining Diverse Talent”, which outlined broad recruitment strategies, along with suggested practices to implement these strategies. Three years after the document was released, this assessment of CARL member librarian postings will determine whether basic and feasible recruitment practices are being implemented, such as broadening the eligibility of required education, promoting the institution as inclusive, and posting the job advertisements to targeted networks.

Track
Poster