Commitment to Diversity @ your Libraries
The University of Louisville Libraries fosters a welcoming environment inclusive in its understanding and integration of the dimensions of diversity, including, but not limited to diversity based on race and ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion, and class.
The University Libraries are charged with two fundamental goals: 1) to encourage the recruitment and hiring of employees who represent the diversity of our society, at all levels, including professional, paraprofessional, and student assistants; and 2) to use our collections and programs to enhance the understanding of the kaleidescope of diversity.
Explore diversity in the collections, exhibits & programs at your University Libraries:
We believe that diversity is essential to intellectual freedom.
Working from this core belief, as librarians, we strive to ...
- provide materials for everyone in the UofL community, and will not exclude materials based upon the origin, background, or views of their authors.
- provide information representing multiple points of view, and will not proscribe or remove materials because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- challenge censorship and cooperate with groups and individuals who resist abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
- guarantee everyone's right to use the library and its resources, regardless of origin, age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial or economic status, background, or views.
- make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
Our statements are based upon the Library Bill of Rights,
adopted in 1948 by the American Library Association.
University of Louisville's Diversity Home Page
For more information on efforts to create a more diverse climate in the libraries,
contact Latisha Reynolds, Coordinator for the Libraries' Diversity Task Force.