Resources – Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Toolkit

Codes of Conduct
Allyship and Upstander Training Resources
Diversity in Hiring & Retention Resources (Maintaining a diverse workforce)
Library Diversity Statements and Diversity Plans (samples)
EDI Toolkits and Libguides
EDI for Digital Scholarship

Codes of Conduct / Community Agreements (samples)

DHSI: Accessibility and Social Media Guidelines for Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Contributor Code of Conduct
Code4Lib Code of Conduct
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations: ADHO Conference Code of Conduct
Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Charter
Society of American Archivists Code of Conduct
OpenCon Revised Code of Conduct
Digital Library Federation: DLF Code of Conduct
Digital Pedagogy Lab: DPL Code of Conduct
RDAP Code of Conduct
DSS Community Agreement

Allyship and Upstander Training Resources

Guide to Allyship Open Guide
- A short, quick introduction to the idea of who an ally is and what they do
ASEE LGBTQ+ Advocacy in STEM: Ally Training Online Workshops – Recordings
- Workshops on allyship offered by the American Society for Engineering Education. Appear to be for ASEE members only.
Stanford University: Upstander Intervention
- Tips on how to be an upstander, or someone who intervenes when they see risky or harmful behavior.
Upstander Project: Upstander Academy
- An in-depth, 6-day workshop in Boston for humanities and museum professionals.
Diversity Council: Bystander to Upstander Training
- Upstander training workshops available on request.
The Bully Project: Upstander Toolkit
Frame Shift Consulting: Ally Skills Workshop – examples linked
- On-demand 6-hour workshop about allyship. Includes train-the-trainer workshop as well, and Creative Commons-licensed material.
Teaching Tolerance: Anatomy of an Ally
- An article discussing the basics of allyship.
How to be an Ally in Training: Comic Sketch
- Includes quick tips on how to be an ally.
Moving Beyond Race 101
- Notes from a panel at the ACRL 2019 conference that invited attendees to discuss various scenarios.
Mt. Holyoke Active Bystander Training
- Definition of an active bystander.
The Impact Seat Bystander Protocol
DSS Anti-Oppressive Meeting Facilitation and Allyship Training Session, Sept 2019
Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces
- Two books that discuss creating inclusive workplaces.
Raceworks
- A toolkit including short videos and questions to lead a discussion with students or employees on what is race. Produced by Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies and Race and Ethnicity and using their research.

Diversity in Hiring & Retention Resources (Maintaining a diverse workforce)

Higher Ed Jobs Diversity Resources
- Curated trainings and readings based on various affinity groups.
Librarians for Equitable Professional Development
- An informal organization of academic librarians who are interested in studying and advocating for more equitable professional development in libraries. This site includes research and presentations related to economic barriers to engaging in professional development and service.
University of Oregon: Best Practices for Improving Faculty Diversity Recruitment and Retention
- Discusses the issues and myths that hurt recruitment and retention of faculty of color. Adapted from a chapter in the book The Chief Diversity Officer [CDO]: Strategy, Structure, and Change Management.
Joanna Thielen and Amy Neeser, Writing inclusive job descriptions for data practitioners – presentation, paper, and article
- Tweaks/practices (from meeting with authors)
  - Degrees – no “equivalent/related/appropriate”
  - Complexity of “tech” skills – “familiar” to “experience” etc.
  - Gendered language
  - Valuation of “soft” skills vs. “tech” skills
  - Compensation consideration when desired skills compete with IT market
Janice Y. Kung, K-Lee Fraser, Dee Winn, Systematic Review on Diversity Initiatives to Recruit and Retain
- Systematic review article published in College & Research Libraries. Included 20 articles that studied what academic libraries are doing to recruit and retain diverse librarians.
Aliqae Geraci and Shannon L. Farrell, Normalize Negotiation! Learning To Negotiate Salaries And Improve Compensation Outcomes To Transform Library Culture
- Article published in In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Surveyed and interviewed academic librarians on how they learned to negotiate and what would help them negotiate in the future.

Library Diversity Statements and Diversity Plans (samples)

EDI Toolkits and Libguides

EDI for Digital Scholarship

ACH Toward anti-racist technical terminology toolkit
- This living document and corresponding open bibliography addresses problematic terms common to digital humanities
ARL Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence
University of Florida International Resources
- multiple presentation links including DS focused ones
MIRA! The Future We Create
- “mobilizes communities and networks around an urgent need to harness innovation in reflection of this transformative time… and reimagines how we lead, learn, create, and connect…”
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble, NYU Press, 2018.
Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, MIT Press, 2020
Electronic Frontier Foundation
- 501(c)(3) founded in 1990 focused on defending civil liberties and advocating for users & innovators
Big Data Social Justice Foundation
- nonprofit launched 2017 to “raise public awareness of the role that Big Data can play in addressing community, national, and global issues of social justice” (N.B. the site is not currently available)
The Maintainers
- “a global research network interested in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world.”