Roundtable: What is Holding Librarianship Back from Being more Inclusive of Visible Minorities

Abstract

For this issue, we asked three librarians and one MLIS candidate to respond to the following question: “According to Statistics Canada, 19.1% of the Canadian population identify themselves as visible minorities, but in the CAPAL census, only 9.1% of respondents identify as members of visible minorities. What is holding librarianship back from being more inclusive of visible minorities?” Enjoy!

Keywords

• inclusion
• diversity
• visible minority
• visible minorities
• race
• equity
• hiring
• exclusion
• librarianship
• librarians
• visible minority librarians
• white supremacy
• racism