 So I'm here to share with you some work that we've done within OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership to take a look at where institutions in the OCLC Research Library Partnership are on their trajectory with engaging with issues around equity, diversity, and inclusion. And just to frame this a little bit, OCLC Research is an organization that is really, we're a learning organization. We take information and we synthesize it and then we share it back out to the broad library community and also within OCLC. So we really see ourselves as learning along with the library community and on behalf of the library community. I am part of a group of folks within OCLC Research that works with the OCLC Research Library Partnership. I know that several of you in the room are affiliated with RLP institutions. And we're a transnational group that creates a network of peers that work on common issues together and that can engage directly with OCLC Research and with OCLC more broadly. I did manage to get Australia on my slide here. 70% of our partners are in North America, but 30% are not. So it does, the transnational thing is, it's a real thing and it's a real, it's both a challenge and an honor to work with a group of institutions that is so transnational in nature. As a learning organization, we are trying to ourselves as library professionals come up to speed on issues that are important to our community and equity diversity and inclusion is such an area that is of broad concern I would say to many, if not all of the institutions that are in the OCLC Research Library Partnership. And as part of our effort to get ourselves educated and also to share learnings with the broad community, we have tried to incorporate equity, diversity and inclusion into a broad range of programming. So not just the survey, but also we have a series, this OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series which we host internal to OCLC but also webcast out and under the leadership of my colleague, Rachel Frick who's the executive director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. We've really steered the Distinguished Seminar Series to look at issues around equity, diversity and inclusion and our last three speakers have focused on those issues. So I urge you, these are really high quality, great talks, they're available online on our website and I urge you to check them out. This survey itself was carried out by my colleague Karen Smith-Yoshimura. Many of you know her, she does terrific work. It was conducted between September and October of last year and was issued within the OCLC Research Library Partnership. The full results of the EDI survey and all of our other work that relates to EDI is available at oc.lc slash edi. I hope you don't gallop off there right away but just bookmark that for the future and I'll share that again at the end of the presentation. So in doing the survey and doing this work we've really consulted with and relied on the definitions in the American Library Association's statement on equity, diversity and inclusion and are using their definitions for equity, diversity and inclusion which are allied but a little bit different and many institutions will frame these as EDI or diversity initiatives or inclusion initiatives but oftentimes these have a really kind of a social justice tie to what the institution is doing and it also, Mr. Keating's remarks today I think really resonated with me. We all aspire to have libraries be open and as open and inclusive as possible and I think that what looking at equity, diversity and inclusion allows us to do is to remain curious about how as open as we intend to be it gives us an opportunity to reflect on are we being as inclusive and welcoming to everybody in our communities? Do our workforces look inclusive? Do our collections reflect the communities that we serve? Do our services feel welcoming to everybody? So there's really a broad variety of ways that EDI can express itself and that's something that we definitely saw in the survey. So we issued this as I said between September and October of 2017 and really used this opportunity to get a snapshot of EDI activities within the OCLC partnership that could guide us in identifying specific follow-up activities but would also give us an opportunity to share out broadly what this group of institutions were doing. So we sent the survey out to the partner representatives at each institution. We have one partner up because we wanted one response for each institution. Here's the breakdown by institution. I wanna say that Canada, although there was only three responses, that's a 75% response rate so go Canada. Australia, there's eight in Australia so Australia did even better, go Australia. So we should have had percentages by representation there. So we asked, there were two questions that everybody was required to answer. One was, do you have a group in the library that's actively looking at or working on EDI issues? And 72% either do have one or are planning on having one. So this is pretty well integrated within library services. And then we also asked how many people were using EDI principles to inform practices and that was 79%. So pretty high, lots of libraries are in fact doing this of those who responded to the survey. Here is a slide that you can't read at all but I'm gonna tell you the parts of it that are important. In terms of, we asked in 12 different areas we asked where they have changed practices or where they are planning to change practices due to their institutions, EDIs, goals and principles. So the top three areas that have changed are in activities and events, recruitment and retention for the library workforce and outreach to marginalized communities. Collection building was fourth with 73% of people indicating that that was important. The top three areas where people intend to plan but haven't yet, so 70% or more, are search and discovery interfaces and metadata descriptions in library catalogs. Slightly more have changed metadata descriptions in archival collections than planned to. So that kind of distinction between changing things that are in the regular catalog versus archival collections. There's been more activity in things that relate to unique and distinctive collections. So to put this into a form that you can read, here are the things that people have already changed and they're ranked. And then here are practices and service areas where people plan to make changes and spaces is something that people both have made progress in and plan to make progress in. So now I'm gonna walk through just some examples from the survey and it'll show kind of the wide variety of ways in which EDI work is playing out in research libraries as represented in the research library partnership. So Duke University is an example of one of those that has a very active, they primarily see their form of engagement as through this Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council or DIVEN, which surfaces issues that need attention. They said that things that the DIVEN group has done is to run an ongoing event series to address accessibility issues for websites and other systems that are within the library's purview and to also implement a gender neutral bathroom policy across the libraries. At Texas A&M, they are an example of an institution that is making changes in the workforce and they have a three-year diversity residency for minority librarians who want to work in academic libraries. This is something that we see as a growing thing within the United States as these three-year diversity residencies. In at Monash University, this is an example of an institution that's looking very closely at their spaces. They, the library works to highlight indigenous places in the university including indigenous art within the library. So that recognition of space and place. Brandeis University is looking at the community that they're embedded in in Boston and looking at how they are embedded within the community that they serve and increasing documentation related to students of color and looking at weaving those collections, that documentation into learning student light and activism with the library at the center of that work. LSE here has worked on, is leveraging existing collections. So organizing and promoting public events related to their extensive LGBT collections. And this is just a word here. I use publicly available because I want to be able to share my content. I use these things from Wikimedia Commons. So you should all go out and look online and see what your library looks like on Wikimedia Commons. Because I get a lot of these. Sometimes I can find great images, sometimes I can. At Brigham Young University, curators are working with marginalized communities. Again, that are reflected in their surrounding community to acquire materials for collections, including Hispanics and Native Americans. So here, looking at acquiring new materials and building up collections to look like the community that they're situated in and also the students that they're seeing on campus. Ohio State University, again, building collections in particular areas. Middle Eastern, African American, Latin American comic artists to relate to the cartoon museum. African American theater, LGBT, Native American primary sources, et cetera. At Princeton University, they are using their EDI initiatives not only for the library to help serve as a source of historical reconciliation within the community and acknowledging Princeton's relationship to enslaved peoples, but also to connect the library with the historical society of Princeton and to the public library. So this is using EDI as an opportunity to engage with other community partners. And they have this website and symposium series and also public lectures that are throughout the entire community. So not just on campus, but also within the community. The University of Delaware is likewise working with the African American community and other collaborative partners to preserve and collect oral histories and digitize personal photos and materials. So connecting with communities and also building collections and trying to do so in a sensitive and respectful and inclusive manner that where you're not just kind of remotely documenting of people but doing it in collaboration with those people. Language is really important and here I don't know why I don't have a label. There it is. Language is really important at La Trobe University. They work to change the salutation in their library system to identify people by the salutation that they feel most appropriately matches their gender preference. So Mr., Ms. and Mix to be, yeah. So labeling and language really matters and this may seem like a small thing but I wanted to call it out as a particular effort. Library of Congress is working with Native American nations to appropriately label their digitized collections. So again, working with a community and that those issues around naming and labeling and trying to do that in a respectful and inclusive manner. University of Manitoba, as Jonathan pointed out there's this really remarkable work that's going on that is in conjunction with the truth and reconciliation work that's going on in Canada. University of Manitoba and other institutions are working with indigenous communities to incorporate appropriate subject headings in archival and library print and digitized collections. And this is a really, it's a very complicated issue because the language that we have traditionally used in library subject headings is damaging to the communities that were and they're the artifacts that are in the collections that are describing them. So this was a really a wonderful example and we highlighted it in a Works in Progress webinar where we highlighted work that was being done both by the Association for Manitoba Archives and the University of Alberta Libraries and they talked about their work to, as I said, accurately, appropriately and respectfully represent indigenous peoples in context and subject terminologies. And it's not just a matter of flipping a switch and changing the subject terminologies, it really is a complicated process and needs to be done thoughtfully and in conjunction with the community. This is one of our, within the OCLC Research Library partnership we have these Works in Progress webinars and this was one of our both most highly attended webinars and most highly viewed after the fact so that again indicates a high interest in this type of work. And I know that this is not the only institution that's grappling with how to make these changes and adjustments. Another very highly attended and also watched after the fact webinar was one that was put on by MIT Libraries talking about their collections directorate and how they have looked at how they can take EDI principles all the way down to the ground through all of their processes and even looking at the types of systems that they acquire as being an EDI. And again, they really take a social justice sort of framework in looking at their work in librarianship, how they're serving their community and how they can more respectfully and inclusively serve a research community. So I encourage you for both of these webinars, there's links to them if you go to that oc.lc slash edi, you'll find links to these webinars and all of the other talks that I've highlighted here today. So the biggest institutional challenges, there were some recurring themes in what were the challenges that people face. One is building relationships with marginalized communities. And that is, as Jonathan said, this is long-term work and work, especially when you're dealing with communities that need reparations, it's a process and you need to be in it for the long haul and to build trust. Recruiting staff that reflect the demographics that we would like is also challenging as well as recruiting people, retaining people that have been recruited through those efforts. Developing more inclusive organizational structures and building a shared understanding of what's meant by diversity, inclusion, social justice, creating a positive work climate where people don't feel excluded by these terms and feel like they're really for somebody else, kind of making the case that this is really, we're all stronger together. Having work centered around specific initiatives can be a real challenge. So kind of the edi work is somebody else's job or it's going on over there rather than having it be understood as a shared value that is implemented and understood by everybody and creating a positive climate and understand that you're gonna have conflicts within when you're dealing with difficult issues and so striving to keep things positive and to help address conflicts as they come up. And of course this takes time, resources, funding so recognizing that rather than kind of giving it a little bit of time and attention, recognizing that it's gonna take time, attention and funding. So the people who said that they didn't have something within the library, what about those institutions? So that was 28% of institutions said that they were not. So in many cases, they saw the edi initiatives were something that was going on at the institution more broadly, not necessarily within the library but not, they didn't feel like they needed to be strategically driven at the library because that was happening at a higher level or there's the pool of applicants was called out. The university already has established programs and the library participates in those. Everybody has to participate in awareness training so we're covered, that was one. Our university just does this as part of our business and we aspire to an inclusive approach to all that we do so we don't have this as a specific thing. So that is what I have to share with you today. Again, you can find out more about our work. There's much, much more details about the survey and you can dig into details there and see our videos and ask us questions. Thanks.