Inclusivity by Design: Creating the Best Practices Checklist for One-Shot Library Instruction: Creating the Best Practices Checklist for One-Shot Library Instruction

Academic libraries increasingly serve diverse student populations with varying needs, backgrounds, and learning preferences. The William H. Hannon Library (WHHL) at Loyola Marymount University has committed itself to creating “a library where inclusivity is automatic,”1 embedding diversity, equity, inclusivity, and anti-racism (DEIA) principles in collections, spaces, operations, and throughout all library work. In response to this institutional commitment and growing instructional challenges, the library prioritized, in its 2021–26 Strategic Plan, “Action 1.1.1: Directly integrate DEIA practices into information literacy instruction to enhance students’ critical information literacy skills.” In 2022, the Reference & Instruction Department of the library began developing a practical checklist for incorporating DEIA concepts into library instruction. Rather than organizing by information literacy outcomes, which created artificial boundaries that fragmented interconnected concepts, we developed a tiered system.