Post-Election Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Code4Lib

This is a repository to provide a space to draft and allow for dialog in the creation of a statement on diversity for the Code4lib community.

Resources for starting points:

Many example statements: [Post-election Statements and Messages that Reaffirm Diversity] (http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/3620)

From Libraries

[University of Oregon Libraries] (https://library.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/open_letter_diversity_equity_response_2016_0.pdf)
[Northwestern University Libraries] (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/affirming-library-values-sarah-pritchard)
[James Madison University Libraries] (http://www.lib.jmu.edu/info/newsitem.aspx?id=57)

From Library Associations

From Higher Ed

[University of California] (https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-election)
[University of Nevada, Reno] (http://www.unr.edu/president/communications/2016-11-10-election)
[University of Michigan] (http://president.umich.edu/news-communications/letters-to-the-community/2016-election-message/)
[University of Oregon] (https://around.uoregon.edu/content/president-schill-emphasizes-need-inclusion-campus)
[CUNY] (http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2016/11/10/statement-from-chancellor-james-b-milliken-on-the-presidential-election/)

From IT Associations

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From Other Organizations

[ACLU] (https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-donald-trumps-election)
[Joint Statement from California Legislative Leaders on Result of Presidential Election] ( http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-11-09-joint-statement-california-legislative-leaders-result-presidential-election)
[Black Lives Matter] (https://mic.com/articles/159496/exclusive-black-lives-matter-issues-a-statement-on-trump-s-election#.qcQGBdRR1)

Open questions

Add your questions here.
Don't be shy.

License

CC0 Licensed under CC0

Discuss

Discussion is welcome either on the Code4lib listserv or by creating a new issue: https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/issues/new

Contribute

Using Github (doesn't require knowing Git)

The Code4Lib diversity statement and the related stuff is located in a child directory "diversity" inside the 'Code of Conduct' repository
See the Contribute Section (https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/blob/master/README.md#contribute) of the README file of the parent repository 'Code-of-Conduct'