MISC Working Groups
Learn about Working Groups responsible for carrying out specific activities, events, and initatives.
There are currently four working groups covered under the MISC constitution:
Accessibility Interests
Class of 2020 & 2021 Continuity
Diversity
Part-time Students
New working groups can be created by a majority vote during a meeting of General Council, at which time a Chair must be appointed. The Working Group may begin operating immediately after this vote is approved. By the following General Council meeting, the Working Group must submit a constitutional amendment including terms of reference for their Group (written in consultation with the MISC executive). Candidates for Vice-President and Representative positions are particularly encouraged to consider chairing a Working Group, since their duties often overlap with the issues addressed by Working Groups.
Working Group Chairs

Patty Facy
Chair: Class of 2020 & 2021 Continuity Working Group
Past Working Group Events & Initiatives
Events
Accessibility Interests Working Group
- November 12: Unwrap Accessibility Brownbag Lunch Seminar #1
- November 15: Unwrap Accessibility Brownbag Lunch Seminar #2
- November 19: Unwrap Accessibility Brownbag Lunch Seminar #3
- November 22: Unwrap Accessibility Brownbag Lunch Seminar #4
- February 28: Talk: Building Inclusive Library Spaces
- March 11: Star Trek Viewing Party
Diversity Working Group
- September 16: Public Talk: In Conversation with Jarrett Drake (collaboration with Faculty of Information and the Toronto Area Archivists' Group)
- October 16: BIPOC Social Gathering
- November 14: DWG Reading Group #1
- December 10: BIPOC Working Session
- January 20: DWG Reading Group #2
- February 7: DWG Dance Party
- March 5: SyllaBye: a syllabus destruct-a-thon
Part-Time Students Working Group Events
- November 7: Part-Time MI Students’ Fall Social @ Brewhaha
Initiatives
- The DWG advocated for the creation of awards/scholarships targeted towards BIPOC students, and the creation of matching scholarships to be created to match diversity-related scholarships granted to iSchool students.
- AIWG Letter to Professors to Improve Classroom and Course Accessibility