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Main Author: Roy, Lorienne
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1073549
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contents Diversity: Then Is Now. Commentary on Carter, J. R. (1978) Multicultural Graduate Library Education. (Journal of Education for Librarianship, 18(4), 295-314) Roy, Lorienne Library Education Graduate Students Minority Group Students Enrollment Influences Barriers Student Recruitment Disproportionate Representation Paying for College Cultural Influences Access to Education Student Diversity Robbins Carter's portrait of the librarian workforce is still true. According to the latest American Library Association (ALA) demographics, the profile of today's librarian is that of a white (87.1 percent) woman (80.7 percent) of middle age (57.1 percent, age 45 or older) (ALA, 2013). Despite these data, support for increased diversity is strongly present among LIS faculty and within professional organizations, "motivating certain initiatives such as site-specific funding, site-specific curricular foci, and national accreditation standards." Robbins noted that there were four categories of barriers likely obstructing recruitment of students of color into LIS programs: financial, educational, psychosocial, and cultural. The author briefly discusses these areas, comparing now and then. [For the historical paper, "Multi-Cultural Graduate Library Education," see EJ1073546.]
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spellingShingle Diversity: Then Is Now. Commentary on Carter, J. R. (1978) Multicultural Graduate Library Education. (Journal of Education for Librarianship, 18(4), 295-314)
Roy, Lorienne
Library Education
Graduate Students
Minority Group Students
Enrollment Influences
Barriers
Student Recruitment
Disproportionate Representation
Paying for College
Cultural Influences
Access to Education
Student Diversity
Diversity: Then Is Now. Commentary on Carter, J. R. (1978) Multicultural Graduate Library Education. (Journal of Education for Librarianship, 18(4), 295-314) Roy, Lorienne Library Education Graduate Students Minority Group Students Enrollment Influences Barriers Student Recruitment Disproportionate Representation Paying for College Cultural Influences Access to Education Student Diversity Robbins Carter's portrait of the librarian workforce is still true. According to the latest American Library Association (ALA) demographics, the profile of today's librarian is that of a white (87.1 percent) woman (80.7 percent) of middle age (57.1 percent, age 45 or older) (ALA, 2013). Despite these data, support for increased diversity is strongly present among LIS faculty and within professional organizations, "motivating certain initiatives such as site-specific funding, site-specific curricular foci, and national accreditation standards." Robbins noted that there were four categories of barriers likely obstructing recruitment of students of color into LIS programs: financial, educational, psychosocial, and cultural. The author briefly discusses these areas, comparing now and then. [For the historical paper, "Multi-Cultural Graduate Library Education," see EJ1073546.]
title Diversity: Then Is Now. Commentary on Carter, J. R. (1978) Multicultural Graduate Library Education. (Journal of Education for Librarianship, 18(4), 295-314)
topic Library Education
Graduate Students
Minority Group Students
Enrollment Influences
Barriers
Student Recruitment
Disproportionate Representation
Paying for College
Cultural Influences
Access to Education
Student Diversity
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1073549