ALIA Multicultural aims to facilitate networking, support, professional development, and resources for the Information sector with a focus on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities.
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Anyone can get involved with ALIA Multicultural. Membership is encouraged but not required.
News
The danger of a single story*
I want to reflect on the first year of ALIA Multicultural. Yes, it has been a year since the group was launched, with a dedicated mission of advocacy in the Library Information Sector (LIS) space for multicultural diversity needs...
Health information for Multicultural Communities
ALIA Multicultural hosted the Health information for Multicultural Communities webinar on August 25th. With more than 7 million people reporting that they were born overseas in the 2021 Census and 5.8 million people using a language other than English at home this was...
Diversity in the workforce and unconscious bias
Last week Hiba Kanj and Joey Chung from ALIA Multicultural facilitated a discussion on Stereotypes and unconcscious bias. Two additional publications have just surfaced and are being shared as they closely align with the focus of the webinar conversation. The first...
Events
ALIA Multicultural Committee Meeting April
From Stereotype to Empathy to Inclusion: How Diversity can bring Strength to the LIS Workforce
ALIA Multicultural is joining ALIA Disability to deliver a pre-conference workshop in ALIA National 2024. In this workshop, two ALIA special interest groups, ALIA Multicultural and ALIA Disability, join forces to explore diversity in the LIS workforce and the...
