Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee Annual Report 2022
submitted by Z. Sylvia Yang
Current Roster
- Z. Sylvia Yang, chair (2024)
- Clara Burns (2024)
- Lisa Hooper (2024)
- Angela Pratesi (2024)
- Will Scharfenberger (2024)
- Serena Vaquilar (2024)
List of Previous Goals and Progress Made
- Explore options for proposing and presenting equity and inclusion-related content at MLA Annual as well as regional meetings, with the possibility of expanding to a pre-conference(s) at these meetings.
- Co-Sponsored session, “Why Did They Leave and Where Did They Go?: MLA Membership and Career Outcomes of Award Recipients.”
- Co-Sponsored plenary, “Beyond the land acknowledgement: How music libraries can amplify contemporary Indigenous voices in the United States and Canada.”
- Provide leadership in conjunction with the Planning and Reports Officer and CMs regarding strategies to increase equity, accessibility, and inclusion for the 2021 meeting and submit recommendations to the board when appropriate.
- Provide leadership in conjunction with the Planning Committee regarding an Accessibility and Dependent Care Voucher.
- Provide leadership in conjunction with the Emerging Technologies and Services Committee regarding accessibility standards for the first virtual annual meeting (March 2021)
- Provide leadership in conjunction with the MLA/TLA 2021 Task Force to create Meeting Etiquette for the first virtual annual meeting (March 2021).
List of Future Goals
- Dissolve Diversity Committee and Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee; to be replaced with Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee in March 2023. Board approval received, 2022.
- Goal Area 1: Organize Strategically; Objective 1.5: Evaluate the structure of MLA to determine if it has become too large to be optimally effective or to be able to act nimbly and quickly to current circumstances and changes to the field of music librarianship.
Please see the Diversity Committee Annual Report for further goals.