Diversity: Political and Societal Barriers

Josey, E. J.

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“…The major contribution made by the ILS management literature on this point is a thematic issue of the Journal of Library Administration which contains papers on a range of diversity issues including library management in the light of the dismantling of affirmative action (Williams, 1999), the role of civility in diverse relations (Sampson, 1999) and Josey (1999) contributes an essay on the political and social barriers. As part of an interest in information poverty Chatman (1999) addresses the way in which the women inmates of a US maximum-security prison redefine their social world in order to survive incarceration, describing their experiences of a world that is``lived in the round''.…”

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An overview of the literature of management and of information and library services management 1999

Ward

2000

Library Management

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An overview of the literature of management and of information and library services management 1999

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2000

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Modeling Inclusive Practice?: Attracting Diverse Faculty and Future Faculty to the Information Workforce

Subramaniam¹,

Jaeger²

2010

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Goals for achieving diversity among library and information studies (LIS) students and the workforce will remain frustrated until root issues of diversity in LIS faculty are addressed. Students from underrepresented populations are typically drawn to academic programs where they believe the faculty can relate to their experiences and feel that the academic programs include their perspectives. For these conditions to be met, LIS faculty must become much more racially diverse than they are currently. Key aspects for increasing diversity among LIS faculty are to increase the diversity of LIS doctoral students, who will be the new generations of LIS faculty, and for LIS programs to offer courses that meet the needs of these diversified populations.This article will examine the current state of diversity issues related to the education of LIS doctoral students, through the lens of the fourteen U.S.-based members of the iSchools caucus that offer LIS master's and doctoral programs. We will examine pedagogical initiatives that focus on diversity in LIS programs and federally funded grants that have supported recruitment efforts for doctoral students. Collectively, these issues will be used to identify possible strategies that can serve to promote diversity in LIS doctoral education.

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How MLIS Programs Prepare Students to Serve Diverse Populations: The North American Context

Ren¹,

Alemanne²,

Colson³

2022

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science

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According to the American Library Association (ALA), organizational sustainability requires social equity, and serving diverse populations is mandated in the ALA Library Bill of Rights and its Policy Manual on Diversity. Preparation to serve diverse and marginalized populations is a key ingredient in creating the type of resilient leaders needed to promote and sustain systematic and lasting changes in LIS. Although the field promotes services to diverse populations through recruitment and retention of librarians, staff, faculty, and students from diverse backgrounds, there is still much work to do, and LIS programs must support students in obtaining the knowledge and skills they will need to develop inclusive library collections, services, and programs that reflect diverse patrons’ lives and needs and understanding of the experiences of people whose lived experience differs from their own. This study analyzed courses that prepare students in North American ALA-accredited Master’s of Library and Information Science (MLIS) programs to serve diverse populations. All programs’ websites were examined to identify relevant courses, and 28 syllabi were analyzed for the study. The researchers employed descriptive statistics and content analysis to describe course offerings and identify course topics through themes emerging from the syllabi. Overall, the study found that course offerings and rotations vary considerably across programs and that the courses focus on how information organizations serve diverse users’ information needs in the context of access, equity, and diversity and professionalism in LIS. The findings from this study add to previous research on this topic and provide data that can inform MLIS curriculum development.

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Diversity: Political and Societal Barriers

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An overview of the literature of management and of information and library services management 1999

An overview of the literature of management and of information and library services management 1999

Modeling Inclusive Practice?: Attracting Diverse Faculty and Future Faculty to the Information Workforce

How MLIS Programs Prepare Students to Serve Diverse Populations: The North American Context

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