Diversity in Libraries Academic Residency Programs

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Library & Information Science (General)
• Library & Information Science » Library Management

Reviews:

• This important collection of descriptive and personal essays provides experience-based insights on minority residency programs in academic libraries...This book will be of great value to all academic libraries with residency programs, to those that are considering them, and, most importantly, to those academic libraries that wish to enact their values of both diversity and professional development. It will appeal to a wide audience, including administrators, practitioners, MLS students, and everyone ineterested in diversity issues and librarianship. The work is a solid contribution to the literature on racial and ethnic diversity in academic libraries, and a unique opportunity to encounter the voices of the new generation of minority librarians entering the profession, as well as those of the new generation of minority leadership in academic libraries. Highly recommended.
  —The Journal of Academic Librarianship July 2002
• ...a valuable resource for a diverse academic community. Libraries interested in developing a residency program will find the information provided by program administrators invaluable....of use to current residency program administrators interested in evaluating or revising their programs....Both minority and non-minority residency programs are covered, making the book a valuable resouce for anyone seeking a residency program.
  —Technicalities March/April 2002

Table of Contents:

• Preface by E.J. Josey
• Introduction by Raquel Cogell
• Residency Program Administrators
• The University of California, Santa Barbara Library Fellowship--A Program in Transition by Detrice Bankhead
• Reflections of an Academic Library Residency Program Coordinator by Julie Brewer
• The University of Minnesota's Affirmative Action Residency Program by Linda DeBeau-Melting
• Advocting Diversity in Research Libraries: The University of Iowa Minority Research Library Residency Program by Janice Simmons-Welburn and Barbara Dewey
• Yale University's Minority Librarian-in-Residence Program by Diane Young Turner
• In Residence
• My Residency at the University fo Michigan: Rewards and Deltas by Joy Cichewicz
• Too Far to Fail by Karla Davis
• A Day in the Life of a Librarian-in-Residence by Yolanda L. Gilmore
• Liberating the Self Through Work: A Personal Herstory by Alysse Jordan
• De Frontera a Frontera/From Border to Border: The University at Buffalo Library Internship/Residency Program by Miguel Juárez
• The Three-Year Experience: The Minority Research Residency Program at the University of Iowa Libraries by Toby Lyles, Charmaine Henriques, and Lamara Williams-Hackett
• From Theory to Practice: Out of Graduate School and into an Academic Library Residency Program by Ethelene Whitmire
• Keeping the Window Open by CM Winters
• Launching an Academic Library Career: The Ohio State University Libraries Experience by Courtney Young
• BPost Residence
• Becoming the Institution: The Resident Experience by Karen Beavers
• A Career in Medical Librarianship: My Experience at the National Library of Medicine by Cynthia Burke
• Open Letter to Prospective Academic Library Interns by Jon Cawthorne
• The University of Delaware Library Program: Two Former Resident's Perspectives by Erin Daix and Sharon Epps
• From Innovative to Controversial: The UCSB Library Fellowship by Partrick Dawson and Nerea Llamas
• Way out West: My Experience in An Academic Residency Program for Ethnic Minority Librarians in Colorado by Jan Squire
• Conclusion by Cindy Gruwell
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Directory of Programs
• Index