Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: online via Zoom
Convener: Carida Riore, Valley Cottage Library

We’re back, and we’re still talking about ways to support diversity in libraries. As long as our patrons come from different backgrounds and demographics, our job is to create programs and services that reflect the communities we serve. In this meeting, we will check in on how our efforts are going, support each other’s challenges, and celebrate each other’s joys.

As library workers, it is no longer enough to say that we are inclusive or tolerant; we need to take action to be anti-racist and to do work to dismantle systems that perpetuate the status quo. Our plans are for this group to meet regularly as a place for us to share ideas of how we can be better allies, co-workers, and humans.

The intended audience for this meeting is library workers in the Southeastern NY Library Resources Council service area. (The eight-county area of Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Putnam and Rockland, NY.) All in this region are considered members or affiliate members. If you are from outside this region, you are welcome to join us. We appreciate the perspective that you might bring to our region, and hope that you understand that our conversation’s focus may be on the Hudson Valley as we think globally and act locally.

If you can join us, please register at the link below. You can catch up on the conversation by viewing the notes from previous meetings on our LibGuide.