{"id":13,"date":"2014-03-26T20:46:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bclaconnectrev.wpengine.com\/dmsc\/diversity-multicultural-services-committee\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:53:07","slug":"diversity-multicultural-services-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bclaconnect.ca\/msig\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Services Interest Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Welcome to the Multicultural Services Interest Group (MSIG)<\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Our mandate is:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>To advocate for equitable library services for culturally diverse communities<\/li>\n<li>To support library workers and others interested in services for culturally diverse communities<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Our objectives are:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>to identify relevant trends and gaps in services for culturally diverse communities;<\/li>\n<li>to improve access to library services, programs, and world language collections for culturally diverse communities<\/li>\n<li>to provide support to, and share information and experience with libraries and library staff in British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>to identify, explore, and where possible, address issues of racism and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about us by reading our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bclaconnect.ca\/msig\/files\/2022\/12\/Multicultural-Services-Interest-Group-Terms-of-Reference-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Attend a meeting<\/h3>\n<p>Meetings are held 4 times per year and are open to everyone. Working groups may meet at other times. Virtual meeting link will be emailed to mailing list two weeks in advance of meeting and in a reminder email one day in advance.<\/p>\n<h3>Upcoming meetings<\/h3>\n<p>Thursday, October 9 from 9:30am-11:00am: on Zoom<br \/>\nTheme: <strong>Adult programs and services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 9 from 9:30am-11:00am: on Zoom<br \/>\nTheme: <strong>Multilingual collections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 19 from 9:30am-11:00am: on Zoom<br \/>\nTheme: <strong>Multilingual\/multicultural children\u2019s services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 26<sup>th<\/sup> 9:30am-11:00am: hybrid meeting \u2013 in person at the Burnaby Public Library, Bob Prittie Metrotown branch and on Zoom.<br \/>\nTheme TBD<\/p>\n<h3>Subscribe to our forum<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Get news and updates about our interest group and the work we are doing<\/li>\n<li>Share information and research on multicultural services<\/li>\n<li>Learn when and where are our meeting being held<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Join the forum: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bclaconnect.ca\/community\/bcla-forums\/forum\/bcla-multicultural-services-interest-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCLA Multicultural Services Interest Group | BCLA (bclaconnect.ca)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Join the interest group<\/h2>\n<p>New members are always welcome. To join or for more information, connect with our Chair, Emily Guerrero: <a href=\"mailto:Emily.Guerrero@bpl.bc.ca\">Emily.Guerrero@bpl.bc.ca<\/a> or our Secretary, Andrea Davidson: <a href=\"mailto:andreaadavidson@hotmail.com\">andreaadavidson@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Multicultural Services Interest Group (MSIG) Our mandate is: To advocate for equitable library services for culturally diverse communities To support library workers and others interested in services for culturally diverse communities Our objectives are: to identify relevant trends and gaps in services for culturally diverse communities; to improve access to library services, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1296,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Multicultural Services Interest Group - Multicultural Services Interest Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bclaconnect.ca\/msig\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Multicultural Services Interest Group - Multicultural Services Interest Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome to the Multicultural Services Interest Group (MSIG) Our mandate is: To advocate for equitable library services for culturally diverse communities To support library workers and others interested in services for culturally diverse communities Our objectives are: to identify relevant trends and gaps in services for culturally diverse communities; 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