Diverse Personnel in Libraries

Diversity

Identity

Interviewees

Interviewing

Life History

Memory

Mentoring

Oral Historians: Tasks and Roles

Oral History

Oral History: Definitions

Shared Authority

Spectrum Initiative

Storytelling

Trauma

Validity

1. "Until there are ample supplies of trained ethnic-minority professionals to meet local demand, we must continue to encourage improvisation and innovation in delivering library service." ⁱ
2. “I can’t think of a better place to put your personal energy and your personal dollars than in recruitment and specifically into minority recruitment.” ⁱⁱ
3. “The problem is that the real quality people don’t see the library profession as the place to be, particularly blacks and Hispanics.” ⁱⁱⁱ
4. “The Spectrum Initiative will have a ripple effect, with each scholar finding at least five people to talk to about librarianship or information science as a career.” ^iv
   

ⁱ Gomez, Martin, "Who is Most Qualified to Serve our Ethnic-Minority Communities?" American Libraries 31 (11) December 2000, 41.
ⁱⁱ William Gordon in “William R. Gordon Speaks: That’s “Mr. Gordon” to You,” American Libraries 33 (7) (August 2002), 95.
ⁱⁱⁱ Althea Jenkins in St. Lifer, Evan and Corinne Nelson, “Unequal Opportunities: Race Does Matter,” Library Journal 122 (November 1, 1997), 45.
^iv Beatriz Pascual in Watkins, Christine, “A Community Mirror: Reflections on the Color of Librarianship,” American Libraries 30 (10) (November 1999), 65.