I have a gift for picking despised professional niches. I used to run institutional repositories, and if there’s a niche in academic librarianship more despised than that, I’m honestly not sure what it might be. From the frying pan into the fire—now I teach library school. If nothing else, I’ve greatly expanded the universe of librarians and archivists who despise my work!
Can Information Professionals Afford Apprenticeships? A Thought Experiment | Peer to Peer Review
By on May 16, 2013 1 Comment
Diversity Never Happens: The Story of Minority Hiring Doesn’t Seem To Change Much | Editorial
By on February 20, 2013 18 Comments
African Americans and Hispanics are some of the strongest supporters of libraries, and yet they continue to be thinly represented among the ranks of librarians. It’s a familiar story and always a bad trade-off that hurts the profession and, more important, hurts our society.
Voices from the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
By on September 20, 2012 4 Comments
In honor of the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color 2012 (JCLC), which began yesterday in Kansas City, MO, LJ caught up with Co-Chairs and the Program Chair of the Conference to hear their views on some of the challenges facing librarians of color today. Haipeng Li, University Librarian at the Hong Kong Baptist University, [...]
ALA Annual 2011: Panel Calls on ALA To Do More To Promote Diversity
By on June 29, 2011
When Luis Chaparro said that the American Library Association can do more to promote diversity, seven nearby heads nodded in unison. “The profession, and ALA in particular, needs to work a little bit harder to bring in more minorities,” Chaparro, the head librarian at Valle Verde Library in El Paso, TX, and a past president [...]
