Diversity and Inclusion

Raynor Library's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Raynor Library, we are committed to being an excellent library for our campus and our community. A foundational element of that excellence is our commitment to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Like the rest of Marquette University, we are constantly striving to strengthen our culture of valuing, respecting, welcoming and promoting a sense of belonging for our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and all others who use our collections and services. Learn more about Marquette's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Addressing Outdated and Harmful Language in the Library Catalog

As a reflection of Raynor Library's commitment to inclusivity, we want to ensure the subject headings in our catalog records reflect and are useful to the Marquette community. If you discover outdated, offensive, or harmful language in a subject heading, we want to know. Please alert us by filling out this brief form.

Honoring Native Peoples, Lands, and Waters

Marquette University acknowledges that our campus and Milwaukee are the homelands and waters of the Menominee, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk and Ojibwe nations, who have known this land and water as a relative for millennia and who remain our hosts on the land today. We also acknowledge that Milwaukee is located along the southwest shores of Michigami (meaning “big water” in Anishinaabemowin), where the Milwaukee River, Menomonee River and Kinnickinnic River meet. We remember that Milwaukee is covered by the 1833 Treaty of Chicago signed by the United States and Potawatomi and acknowledge it cleaved and dispersed this tribal nation through removal. We also acknowledge the presence of tribal members from Wisconsin sovereign nations in Milwaukee, including the Oneida Nation, Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohicans, Brothertown Nation and Ojibwe Nations – namely, the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Sokaogon Chippewa Community and St. Croix Chippewa Indians. We further understand and honor that the greater Milwaukee area is home to a large, resurging urban Indian community that includes diasporic Indigenous peoples from around North America, as well as from the Global South, the Pacific, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Marquette University further acknowledges and pays respect to the elders and ancestors past, present and emerging whose histories, knowledge and cultural traditions have shaped the land and water of the greater Milwaukee area and can enrich practices around its stewardship. We affirm our commitment to practice ongoing good relations with the land and water and with sovereign Indigenous nations that caretake them. In acknowledging the long-held relationships fostered by these lands and waters, we seek to strengthen and recommit ourselves to ongoing and future kinship responsibilities with each other and the Earth. In the spirit of reconciliation, we can authentically attend to and create the conditions of hospitality for current Indigenous students and community members and all yet to walk with us.