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9781560246565

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Libraries

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    9781560246565

  • ISBN10:

    1560246561

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-04-01
  • Publisher: Haworth Pr Inc
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Defining Diversity, Asking Questionsp. 1
The State of Diversityp. 5
Your responsibilities would include ...p. 13
Mentoring, Networking and Supervision: Parallelogram, Vortex, or Merging Point?p. 15
Teaching the Practitioners: One Professor's Attempt at Library Education and Sensitivity to Multicultural Diversityp. 23
Communicating Across Cultures for Reference Librarians Who Supervisep. 39
Student Employees and the Academic Library's Multicultural Missionp. 45
The Significance of a Minority Reference Internship Programp. 57
Instruction and Identity: Diversity in Library Classes and Collectionsp. 67
Instructional Responses to the Presence and Potential of Diversity: Toward Expert Collaborationp. 79
Valuing Diversity: Students Helping Studentsp. 93
Addressing the Special Needs of International Students in Interlibrary Loan: Some Considerationsp. 111
What to Do Until the Expert Comes: Dealing with Demands for Multicultural, International Information Nowp. 119
African-American Reference Books and the Reviewing Mediap. 137
Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approachp. 153
Accessing Ethnic Group Information on CD-ROM: The Case of Southeast Asiansp. 171
Joining us today ...p. 185
A Multicultural Studies Collection Enhancement Group: A Model for Preemptive Collection Development in a Small Academic Libraryp. 187
Coalition Building to Build Collectionsp. 197
Special Libraries and Diversity: Ethical Considerationsp. 213
Culture Keepers: Cataloging the Afrocentric Wayp. 221
Subject Access to Diversity Materials: The Library of Congress Subject Heading Shortfallp. 241
Looking at the Mirror: Reflections on Researching the Recruitment of Minority Librarians to the Profession in LISA and Library Literature on CD-ROMp. 253
Discourse and Discord: Voices from an Academic Libraryp. 279
I'm sure you'll like it here ...p. 297
Your Worries Ain't Like Mine: African American Librarians and the Pervasiveness of Racism, Prejudice and Discrimination in Academep. 299
Electronic Resources for Cultures of the Worldp. 313
Racial and Ethnic Diversity: An Eclectic Bibliographyp. 339
Indexp. 351
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