Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Network

The SCURL EDI Network was formed in November 2021 to facilitate a consistent approach to embedding the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion across SCURL member libraries. The Network enables knowledge exchange across the SCURL membership and informs the strategic direction of the SCURL Business Committee on EDI matters.​ 

We achieve this through a schedule of quarterly meetings to progress common work areas and share good practice. We also launched our events programme in January 2022.

The group has also created a resource to support member libraries in embedding good practice in EDI consistently across services. The EDI Toolkit covers 6 areas considered most relevant to staff working in academic libraries:​ 

• Collections and discovery​ 

• Demographics​ 

• Glossary​ 

• Resource lists

• Recruitment​ 

• Student experience​ 

Subgroups of the EDI Network were formed to develop content to support colleagues in each of these areas.