Join us at IDEAL 2024 in lovely Toronto, Ontario, this summer for learning opportunities and to develop international connections!
The theme of IDEAL 2024 is Sustainable Resistance and Restoration in Global Communities. Sustainable practices are essential to creating equitable systems and structures that last. Restoration in community means re-establishing connection while working with and within historically underserved spaces.
At IDEAL you can choose from sessions like “Exploring Workplace Inclusivity Through the Lenses of Climate, Employee Engagement, and Belonging”; “Sustainable Practices for the Retention of BIPOC Librarians”; and “Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals on Education—What’s in It for Libraries?,” all from the Sustainable Practices track that intends to help participants build attitudes, awareness, skills, and knowledge about sustainability in the workplace and beyond.
We also invite you to join us in building a Community of Care to support the individual and collective needs of the group at the conference. What is a Community of Care? It is a model for how to extend self-care into community-care, which removes the burden of navigating problematic systems and harmful cultural norms from the individual. At IDEAL, we will practice a Community of Care by offering masks, asking folks to be fragrance-free, and creating curated processing spaces like a quiet room and a sensory station.
All of this and more at IDEAL 2024—Register now!
Please note: GROUP RATES for five or more individuals are available. Reach out to ARL at events@arl.org for more information on group rates.
With general questions, email learning+dei@arl.org.
Thank you IDEAL 2024 hosts:
About the IDEAL Conference
Previously known as the National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC), ARL IDEAL is a triennial experience that raises awareness and appreciation of workplace diversity issues through the exploration of theory and practice in libraries and archives. IDEAL 2024 is on the web at events.arl.org/IDEAL24/landing
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
