The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force is a collaboration between students, staff, and faculty working to evaluate the state of social justice within Pratt Institute Libraries, and to develop initiatives that support the Libraries’ mission to provide a safe, welcoming, and productive space for everyone in our community. As library practitioners within the higher education landscape, we seek to elaborate how our support of specialized practices of knowledge production can work unwittingly with or productively against the status quo power dynamics that animate the world at large. We aim to foster critical perspectives on our work as library workers, to interrogate the complex histories of the library as an institution, and to question the assumptions underlying library practice in the present, utilizing communal study to inform meaningful recommendations to our leadership for changes to our Libraries’ practices and policies.
Ongoing Goals
To develop a community of practice that maintains an ongoing critical dialogue around the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Libraries.
To support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in all corners of the Libraries.
To work with external offices and stakeholders to support the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion across the Pratt campus.
To make informed recommendations to our leadership regarding our Libraries’ practices and policies.