Committee:

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Purpose:

To assist the North Dakota Library Association in adopting and implementing strategies to address Equity, Diversity and Inclusion through ongoing engagements, such as workshops, speakers, conversations and partnerships

Chair

Zeineb Yousif, MLIS
Digital Initiatives Librarian
UND Chester Fritz Library

Committee Officers

Committee officers hold their leadership position for the term of one year.

Meetings are conducted regularly via video-conference.

Current

Business

News

The EDI Committee welcomes applications to our 2025 EDI Grant. Application deadline is December 27, 2025. Apply at: https://form.jotform.com/231226509712148

Need inspiration? Check out grant report from 2024 EDI Grant awardee, Lexi Whitehorn of Mayville Public Library. Lexi applied to use grant funds to modernize their adult nonfiction collection, aiming “to create a nonfiction section that reflects the values of inclusivity, equity, and diversity while providing accurate, contemporary information for our patrons”. Read about the results in the September 2025 issue of The Good Stuff!

See our EDI resource list for information on EDI terminology, collection development resources, and examples of work being done at other institutions.

EDI Resource List

Find additional resources in the discussion notes for our quarterly EDI Discussion series.

Previous EDI Discussions

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