Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Justice in the Library
The Fresno State Library strives to empower our diverse campus for full participation in the learning community by exploring diversity and discouraging marginalization. As a result, we work to make our library’s spaces, collections, services, events, and activities inclusive to everyone.
We encourage you to to read our full DEIAJ Statement . You can also learn how we define the DEIAJ words at the end of this page.
Recent DEIAJ-themed Library Activities
2024-25 Academic Year
2023-24 Academic Year
- Special Collections hosts exhibits on critical cataloging
- Womack Lecture explores book bans and censorship of diverse books
- Children’s Book Author Discusses Diversity in Storytelling
- HmongLegacy and Fresno State Library digitize photos of the Hmong experience
- Library Intern Andrea Rozier begins digitizing “Grapevine Magazine” collection
- Library receives grant to expand Asian American studies materials
2022-23 Academic Year
- The Teacher Resource Center partners with Better Living x Live Again Fresno for K-12 Art Exhibit Pilot
- Special Collections completes Brengelman Collection and Homosaurus Book Talk Series
- LibGuide Highlights Poet Natalie Diaz for Native American Heritage Month
- Scholarly Communication Speaker Series Examines Systemic Racism in Academic Publishing
- Taking Civic Action 101: A Panel Discussion on Civic Literacy
- Banned! Books Under Fire Exhibition
- Fresno State Library Special Collections present an exhibit on the Brengelman LGBTQ Collection
2021-22 Academic Year
- Womack Lecture Discusses Indigenous Representation With Dr. Adrienne Keene
- Library offers #OwnVoices storytimes to help students de-stress during finals
- Diversifying children’s holiday books for meaning, relevance, and belonging
- Arne Nixon Center Hosts a Conversation With Evette Dionne on Black Women’s Role in Suffrage and Politics
- Library Special Collections and the Arne Nixon Center present exhibition on Ethnic Studies
El Festival de Los Danzantes, a three day folklórico festival held at Fresno State.
What is “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Justice” or DEIAJ?
Diversity
The practice or quality of including, involving, understanding, and appreciating individuals within the context of, but not limited to, the social constructs of race, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, nationality, documentation status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, along with physical and mental abilities and disabilities.
Equity
An intentional, design‐centered approach and concept that promotes fair treatment, access, opportunities, resources, and advancement of all people while striving to eliminate barriers and disparities that may have prevented the full participation of a marginalized group.
Inclusion
The implementation of accessible opportunities and resources and active, intentional, ongoing engagement and practice that empowers and promotes individuals to create a sense of belonging, support, cultural competence, and humility, with diversity as the core.
Accessibility
The premise of minimizing the disadvantages by creating intentional space, means, and opportunities where individuals can feel empowered to acquire information, engage in the same interactions, and complete tasks autonomously and independently.
[Social] Justice
The knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to create learning environments that foster equitable participation. Social Justice also functions as a process for the revision of injustices that encompass, but are not limited to, human rights, access, participation & Equity.
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