Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries
Autor Teresa Neely, Kuang-Hwei Lee-Smeltzeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2002
Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides effective retention strategies for diverse employees. It also shows how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits for university employees who are unmarried same- and opposite-sex couples.
Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries provides a unique research perspective on assessment and diversity integration in the academic libraries and highlights effective working strategies for a multicultural library environment, examining:
- partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies which work directly with students
- assessment and diversity integration in the academic library workplace and six critical challenges for working well in a multicultural environment
- communication and teaching
- incorporating service learning experiences in the library and information science curriculum
- model retention programs for junior faculty of color
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780789016973
ISBN-10: 0789016974
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0789016974
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 156 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
- Introduction
- People: Recruitment and Retention
- Cultivating Partnerships/Realizing Diversity
- The New Beginnings Program: A Retention Program for Junior Faculty of Color
- Recruit, Recruit, Recruit: Organizing Benefits for Employees with Unmarried Families
- Using Professional Development as a Retention Tool for Underrepresented Academic Librarians
- Effective Retention Strategies for Diverse Employees
- People: Institutional and Organizational Culture
- The Assessment of Diversity Initiatives in Academic Libraries
- Challenges of Working in a Multicultural Environment
- Cultural Diversity and Gender Role Spillover: A Working Perspective
- African American Female Librarians: A Study of Job Satisfaction
- Collections and Access
- Stories Told But Yet Unfinished: Challenges Facing African-American Libraries and Special Collections in Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Historically Black College and University Libraries in the 21st Century: Accomplishments, Challenges, and Recommendations
- Instruction and Library Education
- Communication and Teaching: Education About Diversity in the LIS Classroom
- Diversity in the Classroom: Incorporating Service-Learning Experiences in the Library and Information Science Curriculum
- Race, Class, Gender, and Librarianship: Teaching in Ethnic Studies
- Healing Hearts, Enriching Minds: The Multicultural Storytelling Project and the Texas A&M University Libraries
- Aboriginal Students in Canada: A Case Study of Their Academic Information Needs and Library Use
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Notă biografică
Teresa Neely, Kuang-Hwei Lee-Smeltzer
Descriere
Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides effective retention strategies for diverse employees, introducing a model retention program for junior faculty of color. It also shows how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits for university employees who are unmarried same- and opposite-sex couples, and much more! Diversity Now provides a unique research perspective on assessment and diversity integration in the academic libraries and highlights effective working strategies for a multicultural library environment.