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42 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 301 — 2020 Endnotes 1. Intercultural Development Inventory website, accessed November 23, 2020, https://idiinventory.com/. 2. University of Florida, “The Decade Ahead,” 2016, https://www. uff.ufl.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/goal-setting- brochure-2016.pdf. 3. Mark A. Puente, “ACRL, ARL, ODLOS, PLA Announce Joint Cultural Competencies Task Force,” Association of Research Libraries, May 20, 2020, https://www.arl.org/news/ acrl-arl-odlos-pla-announce-joint-cultural-competencies-task-force/. © Mark A. Puente, Twanna Hodge, Maha Kumaran, and Jeff Witt This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Puente, Mark A., Twanna Hodge, Maha Kumaran, and Jeff Witt. “How a Global Pandemic and Racial Unrest Are Impacting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Research Libraries.” Research Library Issues, no. 301 (2020): 26–42. https://doi. org/10.29242/rli.301.3.

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42 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 301 — 2020 Endnotes 1. Intercultural Development Inventory website, accessed November 23, 2020, https://idiinventory.com/. 2. University of Florida, “The Decade Ahead,” 2016, https://www. uff.ufl.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/goal-setting- brochure-2016.pdf. 3. Mark A. Puente, “ACRL, ARL, ODLOS, PLA Announce Joint Cultural Competencies Task Force,” Association of Research Libraries, May 20, 2020, https://www.arl.org/news/ acrl-arl-odlos-pla-announce-joint-cultural-competencies-task-force/. © Mark A. Puente, Twanna Hodge, Maha Kumaran, and Jeff Witt This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Puente, Mark A., Twanna Hodge, Maha Kumaran, and Jeff Witt. “How a Global Pandemic and Racial Unrest Are Impacting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Research Libraries.” Research Library Issues, no. 301 (2020): 26–42. https://doi. org/10.29242/rli.301.3.

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41 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 301 — 2020 Hodge: We need to be failing forward, embracing the fact that we’ll make mistakes. We need to work on emotional intelligence (EQ) and conflict resolution skills. We don’t get to opt-out or turn away, and there are no options to pick and choose what is essential. If we want to have an equitable, anti-racist profession, we need to think about what led us here—to this point. My interpretation of the concept of Sankofa—is going back to the past to understand it, gaining information from different perspectives, which will lead to progress in the future. We must look at that knowledge to create the future that we all need and deserve. This is something that we’ll be working on constantly. This is a lifelong marathon that everyone needs to be engaging in. We need to be willing to make small steps, understanding that we’ll want to pause, but we can’t stop. This is a movement towards being vulnerable, honest, open-minded, actively listening, and making space for painful, frustrating, traumatizing, and demoralizing hard truths and lived experiences. We need to make more space, time, and consistent financial support for these conversations. We have to be willing to give up power, temporarily or permanently. We must be open to the discomfort, pain, complicated emotions, and messiness this entails. We are fighting for civil and human rights. At the end of the day, we should be able to say that libraries are a place for everyone and not a place that accentuates intergenerational trauma. We need to be mindful of the emotional labor that BIPOC experience and create a future where deauthentication is an experience of the past. We need to create a future where all humans are seen as human and are treated with human dignity and respect.

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43 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 301 — 2020 Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Libraries: Programs and Methodologies to Consider Kiyomi Deards, Visiting Program Officer for Diversity and Leadership, Association of Research Libraries, and Associate Professor and Librarian for Chemistry, Biochemistry, Forensic Science, Physics & Astronomy, and Water, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Mark A. Puente, Associate Dean for Organizational Development, Inclusion, and Diversity, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies In August of 2020, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) celebrated the 20th anniversary of its signature diversity recruitment effort, the Kaleidoscope Program, formerly called the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce. Although established in 2000, the program developed out of consultative capacity at ARL that had been developed since 1990. In the past 20 years, looking solely at the five racial/ethnic categories tracked by the US Census Bureau (African American, Caucasian/other, American Indian and Native Alaskan, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic), representation of minoritized populations in professional positions in US ARL university libraries has increased from a combined 11.4% in 1999–2000, to 16.2% in 2018– 2019.1,2 Looking at the raw numbers, in 1997–1998, there were 854 MLIS or comparably credentialed “minority” librarians employed in the 98 US university libraries for which those data were tracked. In 2018– 2019, that number increased to 1,507 in 100 libraries, for a net gain of 654 library professionals who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Causation is difficult to impossible to attribute without a detailed analysis of the current population of minoritized professionals employed in ARL member institutions, but it is fair to say that there has been a significant increase in the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color populations since the inception of the Kaleidoscope Program in 2000. Although not 100% of those who fall into those racial/ethnic

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