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Image of a diverse group of people with the text: "Libraries are for everyone"
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  • Shannon Moreno
Policing in the Library: A Case Study to Influence Library Policy and Practice
A subcommittee of the Library Diversity Council was charged to evaluate and interrogate the role of policing in the University of Michigan Library. This post explores the evaluation and decision-making processes, while identifying the labor that goes into projects dealing with anti-racist culture change. The group’s research resulted in several recommendations shared with library leadership.
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  • Meghan JK Musolff
Measuring Our Strategic Planning Success: First Steps
In 2025, the University of Michigan Library underwent a nine-month strategic planning process. This blog post details early efforts to design and plan for assessment activities in support of the library’s new strategic plan.
Iteration in the design thinking process: Understand, Explore, and Materialize categories, with steps of empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, implement.
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  • Karen A Reiman-Sendi
Applying Iterative Design to Assessment
A project team charged with providing staff training activities approached the project assessment with an iterative design lens, allowing for responsive and timely development of multiple opportunities for staff engagement around organizational and personal change. The team tried out different assessment techniques related to the opportunities offered.