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Barbara Dewey and Loretta Parham join 50 other librarians, including Tracie Hall, Emma Bradford Perry, and Hannelore B. Rader, to explore one of the major issues facing the profession-diversity. This innovative guide explores how librarians can ensure that their services, staff, and collections truly reflect our multicultural society. Chapters cover strategic planning; recruiting and retaining minorities; reaching out to new users; marketing to underrepresented populations; building collections for marginalized groups; overcoming the digital divide; assessment; and other important topics. The contributors provide numerous forms and documents including library diversity plans; residency and intern job descriptions; recruitment materials; programming plans and documents; and web resources. With guidance drawn from real experience in public and academic libraries, this unique guide will help to make diversity a reality in libraries.
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Booklist Review
This guide offers a compilation of writings by more than 50 librarians based on experiences in public and academic libraries. The writings are grounded in practical approaches to provide reality-based strategies. The manual consists of three parts: How to Create a Successful Diversity Plan, How to Recruit and Retain a Diverse Workforce, and How to Improve Diversity through Services, Collections, and Collaborations. Chapters covers such topics as strategic planning, reaching out to new users, and overcoming the digital divide. The volume concludes with samples of successful diversity documents. Illustrations include examples of materials from programs aimed at promoting diversity. This practical manual will help librarians achieve diversity in services, staff, and collections. --Patricia Hogan Copyright 2006 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Editors Dewey (dean, Univ. of Tennessee Libs., Knoxville; Leadership, Higher Education and the Information Age) and Parham (director and CEO, Robert W. Woodruff Lib., Atlanta Univ. Ctr.) have collected articles from over 30 librarians presented at the National Diversity in Libraries Conference, organized into three sections: How To Create a Successful Diversity Plan; How To Recruit and Retain a Diverse Work Force; and How To Improve Diversity Through Services, Collections, and Collaborations. A fourth part consists of sample documents, including recruitment brochures, strategic plans, and questionnaires. While a reference is made to a study on diversity done by Fairfax County PL, VA, the emphasis is on academic libraries, with all the authors involved in or associated with higher education. Even the two chapters that discuss special collections are framed with higher education as a backdrop. Thus, the principal audience are those connected to postsecondary institutions; it may be of lesser interest to large public libraries/library systems or those who like to engage in extrapolation.-B. Susan Brown, formerly with Pamunkey Regional Lib., Hanover, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
