Multicultural Services

• Encourage an educational environment in the libraries that is supportive of users from various backgrounds and cultures. 
• Contribute to a work environment conducive to recruitment, hiring and retention of a multicultural workforce at all levels. 
• Assist the libraries in maintaining an atmosphere of friendly service to community users from diverse backgrounds. 
• Advise to Director, Outreach & Community Engagement Librarian, and libraries as appropriate, on implementation of the above concerns. 

The UWM Libraries hosts diversity series and sessions with the goal to inform library staff and campus populations of diversity issues; and to provide programming that aides in fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for all library users. 

Meet Your Campus Partners Series 

• October 29, 2018: Maurina Paradise, of the Electa Quinney Institute
• March 27, 2018: Marvette Lacy, Director for the Women's Resource Center 
• November 14, 2017 : Warren Scherer, Director for the Inclusive Excellence Center 
• March, 20, 2017: Jennifer Gruenewald: Director of International Student & Scholar Services with the Center for International Education

Student Programming

• March, 14, 2019: Critical Librarianship Panel Discussion facilitated by Stephen Appel. with Presenters Marcy Bidney, Shiraz Bhathena and Ann Hanlon.
• Wednesday November 7, 2018: ALA Student Chapter/ UWM Library Diversity Committee Critlib  Facilitated by Carrie Wade 
• Tuesday November 27, 2018: By Any Zines Necessary Facilitated by Heidi Anoszko

Diversity Exhibits 

• July 2019: Incarceration Nation: Exploring the US & Wisconsin Prison Problem
• April 2019:  50 Years of Black Studies at UWM
• March 2019: Bread and Roses: Intersections of Women and the Labor Movement
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• February 2019 An exhibition, “Black Excellence & Historical Oscar Firsts
• December/January 2019: Civil Rights, Disability, and Designing for a Better World
• December- January 2018: Exploring Social Justice Issues through Zine creation
• June- Aug 2018: Milwaukee Migration movements of diverse populations throughout time
• February 2018: Black Photographers throughout time 
• December 2017: All of Us: Milwaukee's Winter March for Freedom 
• June, July & August 2017: The Summer of Festivals: Pride, Juneteenth & Mexican Fiesta
• May 2017: The Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the Fight for Equal Education
• March 2017: Celebrating Radical Women Activists on the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and National Level
• February 2017: The History of African American Women in STEM in celebration of Black History Month 

Safe Space Training Provided by LGBT Resource Center

• March 2, 2018  Safe Space Training

Think Tank Tuesdays 

• April 23, 2019 

Guest Speaker: Fobazi Ettarh

Ettarh, Fobazi. "Making a new table: Intersectional librarianship." the Library with the Lead Pipe (2014): 378-93.

• May 8, 2018

Pruitt, Allison-Scott, et al. "5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program." Harvard Business Review (2018).