Recruiting for Diversity
Originally presented December 20, 2007 by Loida Garcia-Febo, Queens Library, and Tracie Hall, Assistant Dean, Dominican University GSLIS, Luis Chaparro, REFORMA President-Elect, and Jerome Offord, Director of Diversity Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries.
Many libraries are struggling to make their workforce reflect the diverse population of patrons they serve. Join us on for a special ninety-minute webinar to learn about recruiting and building a multicultural workforce.
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- Other helpful websites:
MLS Graduate Student Résumé Database
ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP)
Diversity Climate Surveys: Worth the Effort By Pat Disterhoft, Associate Professor of Education; Debbie Giunta, Director, Center for Cultural Fluency; and Arianne Walker, Director, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, all of Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California.
The Diversity Librarians' Network (DLN) is being developed by the University of Tennessee Libraries' Minority Resident Librarians
Diversity Counts Report - Revised January 2007
Stop Talking and Start Doing: Attracting People of Color to the Library Profession Gregory L. Reese and Ernestine L. Hawkins, (Chicago: American Library Association, 1999)
ProMosaic™ II - The Diversity/Inclusion Assessment Tool
2007 Joint REFORMA Northeast, AILA, APALA, BCALA and CALA Mini-Conference
Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship
The Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship provides full tuition and annual stipends of $20,000 to Fellows for the first two years of study. For more information:
Spectrum Scholars
Spectrum's major drive is to recruit applicants and award scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students.
Urban Libraries Council/ Librarian’s for America’s Neighborhoods 2
PRISM program in the Rhode Island University
UCLA [University of California, Los Angeles] Diversity Recruitment Summit
International Perspectives of the New Librarian Experience
