National Library Week Speaker Event
National Library Week Speaker Event In-Person / Online
Join NEFLIN and the Carpenter Library for this speaker event in honor of National Library Week!
The Retention of BIPOC Library Workers: A Call to Action
Speaker: Twanna Hodge, DEI Librarian at UF
As institutions struggle to retain workers (especially BIPOC, or Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) in the midst of the “Great Quit”/“Great Resignation” they need to examine their organizational culture and their commitment to retention. Retention is not solely the responsibility of the individual, nor can mentors singlehandedly provide the necessary structural supports. Retention involves strategic, intentional, and communal actions. It is active, not passive. In this talk, attendees will understand some of the historical and contemporary barriers in the recruitment and hiring process in libraries that affect retention. Attendees will learn the elements of retention. Lastly, attendees will leave with concrete strategies to retain and recruit traditionally underrepresented library employees.
This event is hybrid and may be attended in person or online via Zoom. Register below to attend.
Sponsored by NEFLIN and the Carpenter Library Dean's Leadership Council.
- Date:
- Friday, April 8, 2022
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Carpenter Library, Classroom 2102A, Second Floor, Carpenter Library, Classroom 2102B, Second Floor
- Categories:
- Community Outreach Event Faculty Outreach Event Student Outreach Event
Speaker Bio: Twanna Hodge (she/her/hers) is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida Libraries. She has been with the libraries since February 2020 in her current position. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington. She’s been an academic librarian for over 6 years and has been engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion work since graduate school. Her research and professional interests are diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues and efforts in the LIS curriculum and workplace, library residencies and fellowships, cultural humility in librarianship, and the retention of underrepresented and BIPOC library employees in librarianship. She is a 2013 Spectrum Scholar and 2018 ALA Emerging Leader.
