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Diversity Programs and Offices
ALA Office for DiversityAmerican Library Association (ALA)
To provide a forum to research, monitor, discuss, and address national diversity issues and trends. To analyze and address the impact of diversity issues and trends on the profession, and the relevance and effectiveness of library leadership, library organizations and library services to an increasingly diverse society.
ACRL:
Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
To initiate, advise and mobilize support for appropriate action
related to issues of racial and ethnic diversity in academic librarianship
including recruitment,
advancement and retention of underrepresented groups to academic librarianship
and promotion of quality academic library and information services for
members of racial and ethnic groups.
ARL Diversity Program
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
The ARL Diversity Program's purpose is to support efforts
within academic and research libraries to promote and
develop library staff and library leaders who are representative of America's
diverse population.
Associations and Organizations
- African American Studies Librarians Section of ALA
- related listserv: African American Studies and Librarianship
- American Indian Library Association
- Asian Pacific Librarians Association
- Association of Jewish Libraries
- related listserv: American Jewish Libraries <HASAFRAN@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Black Caucus of the ALA
- related listserv: The Black Information Professionals' Network <BLACK-IP@listserv.temple.edu>
- related listserv: Electronic Journal for Black Librarianship <EJBLACK@listserv.kent.edu>
- Chinese American Librarians Association
- related listserv: Chinese American Librarians Association <CALA@csd.uwm.edu>
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgendered Round Table (ALA)
- related listserv: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Librarians <GAY-LIBN@usc.edu>
- related listserv: Lesbian and Bisexual Women Library Workers List <LEZBRIAN@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Libraries
Serving Special Populations Section (ALA)
- related listerv: Project EASI: Library Access for Persons with Disabilities <AXSLIB-L@maelstrom.stjohns.edu>
- REFORMA - Association
to promote librarianship among Latinos. (Listserv)
- related listserv: Chicano/Chicana Culture and Literature Exchange <CHICLE@unmvma.unm.edu>
- Transborder Library
Association
- US/Mexico Library Association
- related listserv: Transborder Libraries <FORO-L@lists.gseis.ucla.edu>
Library Schools, Education, Scholarships
ALA
Spectrum - New Faces, New Era
The Spectrum Initiative is the American Library Association's
national diversity and recruitment effort designed to address the specific
issue of under representation of critically needed ethnic librarians within
the profession while serving as a model for ways to bring attention to larger
diversity issues in the future.
Knowledge River from University
of Arizona : Spanning the Digital Divide
The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science
(SIRLS) invites you to share in a unique opportunity to pursue a new kind of
information profession. Knowledge River focuses on library and information
issues from the needs and perspectives of Hispanics and Native Americans. Knowledge
River participants will graduate with an MA in Information Resources and Library
Science.
ALA accredited Library Programs
Directory provides information about library and information
studies programs that are accredited by the American Library Association
(ALA).
