January 2020
Reaching the Rainbow: Tools to Increase LGBTQ Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries - January 30, 2020 at 2:00 pm
Approximately 4.5% of people in the United States identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) according to a 2017 Gallup Poll. This represents a steady increase since 2012. Library staff must be culturally competent to serve this growing population. This presentation will provide an explanation of terminology, statistics, resources, and more to assist libraries in creating a more inclusive environment. The goal of this session is for attendees to walk away with a toolkit that will help make sense of what seems, on the surface, to be alphabet soup.
Featured Speaker: John Siegel, MLS, MEd, AHIP (he/him/his), Assistant Librarian-Coordinator of Information Literacy, Affiliate Faculty-Center for Women’s and Gender Studies Library, University of South Carolina Upstate