Kung, J., Fraser, K., & Winn, D. (2020). Diversity Initiatives to Recruit and Retain Academic Librarians: A Systematic Review. College & Research Libraries, 81(1), 96. doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.1.96
When it came to choosing the article to think and create a question around at first I thought I might go for the one written in 1998 to see if the author's predictions were coming true or not now. Then I decided to read this article by Kung & Winn. I found this article very interesting to read and provoked several questions. My main question is why did the authors not look into the lack of retention within the Asian American or Asian communities as well as the African-American and Latinx communities? These communities face the same lack of diversity issues for sometimes the same and different reasons. The only time that the word Asian was referenced was at the end of Appendix A. Sample LISA Search Strategy. I found that curious as well.
My second question would have to be why didn't the authors include Public libraries and how they impact either positively or negatively the representation or lack thereof within the local communities and these specific minority communities? For example, my public library growing up had only older white women working there who as soon as you hit 12 years old were deemed as too old to go to the children's part of the library until 20 or 21 when they deemed you old enough to be quiet (I mean like you can hear a pin drop silent) in the adult section. Even I was discouraged from the Library industry until I started working at one in Western Springs, IL at the age of 22 or 23. The impact of libraries starts even before a person goes to elementary school and that was not touched on at all. If they had studied communities where there was a public library and the staff took an interest in the community member's lives throughout childhood into adulthood that might have brought some good data and correlation based on the race, and socioeconomic status of the communities and how many people felt they wanted to become librarians and work in academia or the public sector. If Chris Bailey is talking tomorrow my question to him will be if you can talk about this how do you feel the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is doing in terms of diversity and the retention of librarians from the Latinx, African-American, and Asian American\Asian communities?
The Information Professions
Readings
- Abbott, A. (1998). Professionalism and the future of librarianship. Library Trends, 46(3), 430.
- "Accredited Library and Information Studies Master's Programs from 1925 through Present", American Library Association, July 20, 2006. http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/accreditedprograms/directory/historicallist
- "ALA’s Core Competences of Librarianship", American Library Association, January 27, 2009. https://www.ala.org/educationcareers/sites/ala.org.educationcareers/files/content/careers/corecomp/corecompetences/finalcorecompstat09.pdf
- “Charter and Bylaws”, iSchool, January 23, 2019. https://ischools.org/resources/Documents/2019-01-Charter-update-v.2019-01-23_final.pdf
- Kung, J., Fraser, K., & Winn, D. (2020). Diversity Initiatives to Recruit and Retain Academic Librarians: A Systematic Review. College & Research Libraries, 81(1), 96. doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.1.96
Optional
- Bladek, Marta (2019). From Women-Staffed to Women-Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018. Journal of Library Administration, 59:5, 512-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2019.1616970
- Overall, P. M. (2009). Cultural Competence: A Conceptual Framework for Library and Information Science Professionals. The Library Quarterly, 79(2), 175–204. https://doi.org/10.1086/597080
- Preer, J.L. (2004). “This Year – Richmond!”: The 1936 Meeting of the American Library Association. Libraries & Culture 39 (2), 137-160. doi:10.1353/lac.2004.0038.
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