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Since the mid 1980s academic libraries have established minority residency programs in an effort to increase the representation of librarians of color in their institutions. Now more than a decade later, these programs continue to be developed. Essays written by librarians of color who participated in residency programs, and administrators whose institutions made the programs possible, remind us of the continuing need for diversity in academic libraries.
List of contents
Preface by E.J. Josey
Introduction by Raquel Cogell
Residency Program AdministratorsThe University of California, Santa Barbara Library Fellowship--A Program in Transition by Detrice Bankhead
Reflections of an Academic Library Residency Program Coordinator by Julie Brewer
The University of Minnesota's Affirmative Action Residency Program by Linda DeBeau-Melting
Advocting Diversity in Research Libraries: The University of Iowa Minority Research Library Residency Program by Janice Simmons-Welburn and Barbara Dewey
Yale University's Minority Librarian-in-Residence Program by Diane Young Turner
In ResidenceMy Residency at the University fo Michigan: Rewards and Deltas by Joy Cichewicz
Too Far to Fail by Karla Davis
A Day in the Life of a Librarian-in-Residence by Yolanda L. Gilmore
Liberating the Self Through Work: A Personal Herstory by Alysse Jordan
De Frontera a Frontera/From Border to Border: The University at Buffalo Library Internship/Residency Program by Miguel Juárez
The Three-Year Experience: The Minority Research Residency Program at the University of Iowa Libraries by Toby Lyles, Charmaine Henriques, and Lamara Williams-Hackett
From Theory to Practice: Out of Graduate School and into an Academic Library Residency Program by Ethelene Whitmire
Keeping the Window Open by CM Winters
Launching an Academic Library Career: The Ohio State University Libraries Experience by Courtney Young
BPost Residence
Becoming the Institution: The Resident Experience by Karen Beavers
A Career in Medical Librarianship: My Experience at the National Library of Medicine by Cynthia Burke
Open Letter to Prospective Academic Library Interns by Jon Cawthorne
The University of Delaware Library Program: Two Former Resident's Perspectives by Erin Daix and Sharon Epps
From Innovative to Controversial: The UCSB Library Fellowship by Partrick Dawson and Nerea Llamas
Way out West: My Experience in An Academic Residency Program for Ethnic Minority Librarians in Colorado by Jan Squire
Conclusion by Cindy Gruwell
Appendix
Bibliography
Directory of Programs
Index
About the author
RAQUEL V. COGELL is Reference Librarian, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
CINDY A. GRUWELL is Assistant Librarian/Coordinator of Instruction, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota.
Summary
Since the mid 1980s academic libraries have established minority residency programs in an effort to increase the representation of librarians of color in their institutions.
