Guest Editorial : Diversity : More Than Just a Blip  

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Winston, Mark D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: College & Research Libraries vol. 62 no. 1 (Jan. 2001), page 6.
Topik: information resources; academic Librarians
Fulltext: CC23_62-01_MARK D WINSTON.pdf (89.51KB)

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Fostering diversity is an articulated pri­ ority in the academic library community. Unfortunately, academic librarians have not always been successful in their efforts to foster diversity. Despite examples to the contrary, these efforts have been criticized for taking the form of minimal attempts only undertaken in response to university requirements for accountability across units, celebratory programs that include ethnic foods and interesting speakers, or sincere attempts that are thwarted by the fact that “we couldn’t find any minority applicants for the position” or the subjec­ tive determinations that the “best-quali­ fied” person happened to lead to a hire or promotion that fails to further the diver­ sity efforts. Of course, fostering diversity is always a part of the articulated organi­ zational mission and one of the strategic goals of most academic libraries. The ques­ tion becomes whether it is really the case that we have so many other strategic pri­ orities that limited resources, not enough minority graduates of MLS programs who are interested in academic libraries, and other limitations make progress impos­ sible to achieve.

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