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Direct linkDavis-Kendrick, Kaetrena D. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2009
A recent American Library Association (ALA) report has shown that less than 1% of credentialed librarians are African American males. This article discusses possible reasons for this dearth; and, in an effort to inform future LIS recruiting and marketing campaigns, the included study attempted to discover which factors lead African American males…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Job Satisfaction, Librarians, Males
Bishop, Kay; Janczak, Sue – Library Media Connection, 2007
In 2003 at the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) 11th National Conference in Kansas City, the AASL Task Force on Recruitment for the Profession noted that 68 percent of school librarians will retire by the year 2015. They also reported extremely severe shortages of school librarians in ten states and severe shortages in 30 states…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Librarians, Library Schools, School Libraries
Reed, Sally Gardner, Ed. – 1996
Librarianship is in a period of great transition. Expanding uses of information technology and a dramatically changing demographic and economic environment are forcing librarians to re-examine their profession and to ask questions about their future relevance and viability. Change is and should be viewed as an ongoing and critical component of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Change Strategies, Futures (of Society)
