Full Description
A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries!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
Contents
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
