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DEI Audit Toolkit for Digital Collections and Finding Aids

Recommendations Post-Pilot Audit

In order to make better decisions on how to create, maintain, or assess inclusive, diverse, and accessible collections, the DEI Audit Team recommends a series of actions to be implemented for current and future archival descriptive
practices, including: 

  • Creation/revisitation of policies, procedures, and everyday practices that would advance DEI 
  • Creation/revisitation of public statements around our DEIA descriptive practices
  • Rethinking of outreach efforts in response to FU’s reckoning process
  • Rethinking of advocacy efforts to involve new stakeholders and users
  • Organization/Sponsorship of events to discuss findings with our community to discuss audit findings and connect them to larger DEI dialogues
  • Scheduling of future iterative descriptive practices or audits

I. Recommendations regarding the DEI Audit Survey Instrument Design

II. Recommendations regarding the DEI Audit Survey Implementation

III. Recommendations regarding the DEI Audit Checklist

IV. Recommendations regarding the DEI Audit Workflow

V. Recommendations regarding documentation and reporting

VI. Recommendations on how to initiate Phase II

VII. Recommendations regarding revision or creation of statements, policies, and procedures post-audit

VIII. Recommendations regarding Self-Care/Care of those involved in DEI auditing activities