Upcoming ALA Webinar: Diversifying Performing Arts Collections

I’m excit­ed to be offer­ing a live webi­nar Wednes­day, April 24th at 1:30pm — 3:00pm. Below is a sum­ma­ry of the webi­nar. If you’d like to know more, please reach out! You can reg­is­ter here.

Webi­nar description:

Library staff who want to diver­si­fy their per­form­ing arts col­lec­tions often strug­gle with where to start—especially if they are not an expert in the per­form­ing arts. This webi­nar will pro­vide both inspi­ra­tion and con­crete ideas for diver­si­fy­ing per­form­ing arts col­lec­tions in terms of books, plays, video record­ings, sound record­ings, music scores, online resources, and more. 

Par­tic­i­pants will learn strate­gies for both pub­lic and aca­d­e­m­ic library work that are acces­si­ble and impact­ful. These strate­gies include audits, get­ting buy-in from col­leagues, con­nect­ing to the per­form­ing arts com­mu­ni­ty, updat­ing approval pro­files, and incor­po­rat­ing DEI into col­lec­tion devel­op­ment poli­cies. Addi­tion­al­ly, par­tic­i­pants will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reflect on their own pas­sion to cre­ate more equi­ty and jus­tice with­in their per­form­ing arts col­lec­tions in order to devel­op a con­crete diver­si­ty plan.