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Diversity Week at UCF Libraries

Libraries' Education, Diversity and Inclusion Archive

Archives of previous year's event videos can be found in the Libraries' Equity, Diversity and Inclusion collection in STARS at stars.library.ucf.edu/lib-edi/

2021 UCF Celebrates Diversity @ UCF Libraries

Committee members:
Megan Haught (chair), Amy Dovydiatis, Gaby Gomez, Glen Samuels

Workshops:

Diversity in Comics - Gaby Gomez and Megan Haught
Recording:  https://stars.library.ucf.edu/lib-edi/9/

Crochet with Gaby - Gaby Gomez and Megan Haught
Recording (open captions): https://stars.library.ucf.edu/lib-edi/10
Recording (closed captions): https://vimeo.com/675601542/3418ba9baf

Open Heart, Open Mic - Glen Samuels and Gaby Gomez

Color Your Story Bookend Decorating 
John C. Hitt Library - Amy Dovydaitis and Megan Haught
Downtown Library - Gaby Gomez

Graphic Novel Book Club: Butler's Kindred - Gaby Gomez and Glen Samuels


Streaming Video Suggestions:


Activities:

Coloring Pages
Digital Puzzles

2020 Diversity Week

Committee members:
Megan Haught (chair), Amy Dovydiatis, Gaby Gomez, Glen Samuels, Tim Walker


Workshops:

Introduction to Bookbinding Workshop - Chris Saclolo and Megan Haught
Recording: https://youtu.be/kZVhBNgF5TY

Diversity in Comics - Gaby Gomez and Glen Samuels
Recording: https://youtu.be/wSvbPVuUTRY

Beginner's Crochet: Show Your Pride - interactive partnership with Orange County Library System

Stronger Together Showcase - Glen Samuels
Recording: https://youtu.be/6jAvoHMXnqg

Henna Art with Priya - Amy Dovidaitis

Weavers of Orlando - Weaving History: Connecting Our Present to Our Past - Megan Haught
Recording: https://youtu.be/t3C3DeEKAkI

Film Discussion: The Talk: Race in America - Glen Samuels

Family Fiber Arts: Pipe Cleaner Crafts - interactive partnership with Orange County Library System

Open Heart, Open Mic - Glen Samuels and Amy Dovydaitis

Diverse Families Bookshelf - Amy Dovydaitis and Megan Haught
Recording: https://youtu.be/e-ZJ7keLsVs

Film Discussion: Don't Be Nice - Amy Dovydaitis and Glen Samuels

Note: film discussions were not recorded to allow students more freedom and comfort on the topics.


Streaming Video Suggestions:


Activities:

Coloring Pages
Digital Puzzles

 


 

2019 Diversity Week

Committee members:
Megan Haught (chair), Amy Dovydiatis, Patricia Hall, Susan MacDuffee, Tim Walker


Workshops:

Introduction to Bookbinding Workshop - Chris Saclolo and Megan Haught
Fiber Arts for Everyone - interactive partnership with Orange County Library System
Films: After Equality, & TEDTalks: Mary Bassett - Why your doctor should care about social justice - Patricia Hall
Henna Art with Priya - freehand henna art designs
DIVerse Families Bibliography - Kristine Shrauger and Amy Dovydaitis
Weavers of Orlando - interactive fiber arts
Film: Children Left Behind - Tim Walker
Books & Bowties Pop Up Library - Amy Dovydaitis, David Benjamin, Patricia Hall, and Susan MacDuffee
Open Heart Open Mic - Andrew Hackler and Megan Haught
Film: AWAKE, a dream from Standing Rock - Megan Haught
​Accessible Spirit Splash - Tim Walker and Megan Haught


Activities and Displays:

Empowering Equity for All: How do we get there from here? - add a note with your ideas for how to empower equity for all at UCF
We Come From All Over - add a pin to the map showing where you have lived
DIVerse Families Bibliography Display - at Curriculum Materials Center


Featured Bookshelf: UCF Celebrates Diversity

2018 Diversity Week

Committee members:
Megan Haught (chair), Amy Dovydiatis, Katie Kirwan, Joan Reynolds, Tim Walker


Workshops:

Zine Workshop - Chris Saclolo and Megan Haught
Orange County Library System Crafts Mens Meetup - interactive partnership
DIVerse Families Bibliography - Kristine Shrauger and Amy Dovydaitis
Weavers of Orlando - interactive fiber arts
Diversity in High Tech - Challenges and Opportunities for Future Leaders - Tim Walker
Henna Art with Priya - freehand henna art designs
Open Heart Open Mic - Megan Haught
Starting a Family Search - Rich Gause
Film: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria - Megan Haught
 


Activities and Displays:

A New Day Dawns - add a note saying what you hope tomorrow brings at UCF (127 notes)
We Come From All Over - add a pin to the map showing where you have lived (383 pins)
DIVerse Families Bibliography Display - at Curriculum Materials Center

 


Movies Shown in 3rd floor Media Area:

Billie Jean King: A Female Tennis Champion
To Be Takei: A Star's Trek for Life, Liberty and Love
I Am Divine
Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story
Young Lakota: A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights
Life on the Line: Coming of Age Between Nations
Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth
My So-Called Enemy: Celebrating Diversity, Interfaith and Intercultural Understanding
Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson

 

 


Featured Bookshelf: UCF Celebrates Diversity

2017 Diversity Week

Committee Members:
Megan Haught (chair), Cindy Dancel, Tim Walker


Workshops:

Zine Workshop - Chris Saclolo and Megan Haught
The Weavers of Orlando - interactive fiber arts
Open Hearts Open Mic - Megan Haught
Starting a Family Search - Rich Gause


Activities:

How Do You Inspire Inclusion? - add a leaf saying how they inspire inclusion at UCF
We Come From All Over - add a pin to a map where they have lived


Featured Bookshelf: UCF Celebrates Diversity

2016 Library Diversity Week

Committee Members:
Megan Haught (chair), Joan Reynolds, Jamie LaMoreaux, Kate Malachina, Andrew Hackler


Workshops:

Express Your Diversity - guided creative expression time with Carrie Moran
The Weavers of Orlando (set up next to RAID)
Mango Languages Overview - Rachel Mulvihill
Learn Russian with Kate - Kate Malahina
Starting Genealogy Research - Rich Gause
Learn Tagalog with Ven - Ven Basco


Activities:

“Who Inspires You” Wall - both sides of glass wall at entrance
Photographs and short bios posted of 40 people suggested by the committee
Dry erase easel was available with sticky notes and permanent markers for students to post who inspires them
Results: 774 sticky notes posted.


Featured Bookshelf post: Diversity Month