CRL Member Libraries Stand in Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement [1]
Earlier this month, we shared a letter from CRL's President with a foreword from CRL's Head of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives [4]. In our statement, we affirmed CRL's long-standing position as a global organization that prides itself on the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our dedication to helping the stories of marginalized people be told and their voices be heard. The impact of the recent demonstrations has been, and continues to be, profoundly felt, first-hand, within the CRL community. We are heartened by the outpouring of support for the ideals shared by our member libraries and institutions and we continue to offer our support for their recent public statements.
We have compiled a list of CRL member libraries who have made public commitments the Black Lives Matter movement and statements of support for the protests against police brutality and systematic racism.
If you know of a CRL member library statement not listed below, please contact Maria Smith (msmith@crl.edu [3]) to suggest additions.
We are CRL and we stand with you:
University of Arkansas Libraries [6]
Arizona State University Library [7]
Association of Research Libraries [8]
University of California Davis Library [10]
University of California Irvine Libraries [11]
University of California LA University Libraries [12]
University of California Merced Library [13]
University of Cincinnati Libraries [14]
University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries [15]
University of Connecticut Libraries [16]
University of Dayton [17]
University of Denver University Libraries [18]
Duke University Libraries [19]
Emory University Libraries Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library [20]
University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries [21]
University of Georgia University Libraries [22]
George Mason University Libraries [23]
Harvard Library [24]
University of Houston Libraries [25]
Indiana University Libraries [26]
Iowa State University Library [27]
University of Iowa Libraries [28]
University of Kansas Libraries [29]
University of Kentucky Libraries [30]
Lafayette College Libraries [31]
University of Massachusetts Libraries [32]
University of Miami Libraries [33]
University of Michigan Libraries [34]
University of Minnesota Libraries [35]
Macalester College DeWitt Wallace Library [36]
Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center [37]
National Humanities Center [38]
The Newberry Library [39]
University of North Carolina Libraries [41]
Oberlin College Libraries [42]
Ohio State University Libraries [43]
Ohio University Libraries [44]
OCLC [45]
Oregon State University Library [46]
University of Pennsylvania Penn Libraries [47]
Rollins College Olin Library [48]
University of San Francisco Gleeson Library [49]
Simon Fraser University Library [50]
University of South Florida Library [51]
University of Southern California Libraries [52]
Stanford Libraries [53]
Texas A&M Libraries [54]
University of Texas Austin Libraries [55]
Thomas Jefferson Foundation [56]
Tulane University Libraries [57]
University of Utah Libraries [58]
Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries [59]
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries [61]
University of Washington Seattle University Libraries [62]
West Virginia University Libraries [63]