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Diversity in Libraries: Academic Residency Programs, Vol. 94 »

Authors: Raquel V. Cogell (Editor), Cindy A. Gruwell
ISBN-13: 9780313308314, ISBN-10: 0313308314
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Raquel V. Cogell

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.

Book Synopsis

Provides personal narratives of participants of library minority residency programs, which are a viable recruitment strategy for diversity in academic libraries.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Residency Program Administrators
1	The University of California, Santa Barbara Fellowship - A Program in Transition	3
2	Reflections of an Academic Library Residency Program Coordinator	7
3	The University of Minnesota Libraries' Affirmative Action Residency Program: 1991 to the Present	17
4	Advocating Diversity in Research Libraries: The University of Iowa Minority Research Library Residency Program	23
5	Yale University's Minority Librarian-in-Residence Program	29
Pt. 2	In Residence
6	My Residency at the University of Michigan: Rewards and Deltas	37
7	Too Far to Fail	45
8	A Day in the Life of a Librarian-in-Residence	51
9	Liberating the Self through Work: A Personal Herstory	59
10	De Frontera a Frontera/From Border to Border: The University at Buffalo Library Internship/Residency Program	71
11	The Three-Year Experience: The Minority Research Residency Program at the University of Iowa Libraries	79
12	From Theory to Practice: Out of Graduate School and into an Academic Library Residency Program	89
13	Keeping the Window Open	97
14	Launching Librarians into an Academic Career: The Ohio State University Libraries Experience	103
Pt. 3	Postresidence
15	Becoming the Institution: The Resident Experience	113
16	Beginning a Career in Medical Librarianship: My Experience at the National Library of Medicine	119
17	An Open Letter to Prospective Academic Library Interns	125
18	The University of Delaware Library Residency Program: Two Former Residents' Perspectives	131
19	From Innovative to Controversial: The UCSB Library Fellowship	143
20	Way Out West: My Experience in an Academic Residency Program for Ethnic Minority Librarians in Colorado	155
	Conclusion	163
	App.: Directory of Programs	165
	Bibliography	171
	Index	175
	About the Editors and Contributors	179

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