Diversity Standards in Action: How Do We Practice & Value Cultural Competencies?

• Mario Macías, Librarian, Los Angeles Pierce College
• Melissa Cardenas-Dow, Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of California, Riverside
• Jessica Davila Greene, STEM Librarian, Team Leader, Claremont Colleges Library
• Susan C. Luévano, Anthropology, Ethnic, Women and Gender Studies Librarian, California State University Long Beach
• Jayati Chaudhuri, Instruction & Reference Librarian, California State University, Los Angeles

A panel of librarians will unpack the Diversity Standards developed by the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee of ACRL. How do we envision ourselves as culturally competent? How do we engage with these cultural competencies and how do we assess our endeavors through these Diversity Standards? What if our institutions or colleagues have not embraced the Standards? How are cultural competencies valued--both at the individual and/or institutional level? Join this interactive conversation modeled by the World Café method.

• Personnel, Management, and Organization