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Resources
Scholarships & Funding
Mentoring
Graduate Studies
Careers & Job Search Sites
Faculty & Library Staff Profiles
LAMP Informational Flyers
Diversity Resources
Scholarships & Funding
- ALA Scholarships
- Illinois State Library Scholarships
- Roger K. Summit Scholarship
- American Association of Law Libraries
- Wisconsin Library Assn Diversity Scholarship
- George A. Strait Minority Scholarship Endowment
- Library and Information Technology Association
- Council on Library and Information Resources
- Special Libraries Association
Mentoring
- Project Athena
- Association of College & Research Libraries
- Center for Coaching and Mentoring
- International Mentoring Association
- LAMP Mentoring Flyer (PDF)
Graduate Studies
- Graduate School Resources
- Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium
- Dominican University
- University of Illinois
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Wayne State University
- University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Research
Careers & Job Search Sites
- American Library Association
- Become a Librarian Campaign
- Careers in LIS
- Jobs in LIS
- Careers in Academic & Science Librarianship
- Education for a Career in Law Librarianship
- LibrarySuportStaff.com
- CareerBuilder.com – Librarian Jobs
- Monster.com – Librarian Jobs
Faculty & Library Staff Profiles
- Faculty Profiles of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University
- Subject Librarian Directory, Michigan State University
- Campus Libraries at The University of Chicago
- Alumni of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
- Faculty Profiles of the School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Faculty Directory of the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Faculty Profiles of the Library and Information Science Program, Wayne State University
LAMP Informational Flyers
Post these flyers at your library, or office. Distribute them to students who might be interested in applying to a LIS program or LAMP.
- Students Wanted (PDF)
- Outside the Box (PDF)
- Be a LAMP Mentor (PDF)
Diversity Resources
- Diversity Counts
- Ethnic Library Association
- Association of Research Libraries Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce
- Research on Campus Diversity by The Chronicle
- Bibliography of Diversity Resources (PDF)
Asians and Pacific Islanders
The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association has posted resources related to the goals of the APALA. Similarly, the Chinese American Librarians Association website has pages devoted to Chinese materials in print and online. From our perspective, the Mid-America Chinese Resource Guide is worthy of special note. It is intended to be an online reference resource that includes all China-related information from the Midwest.
African Americans
The Black Caucus of the ALA provides a relatively short list of articles and websites of interest to African American librarians.
Latinos
REFORMA, an organization devoted to promoting the interests of the Latino community through literacy and increased participation in library and information science, provides a resources page on its website.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered community
ALA GLBT Round Table bibliographies
The Lambda Literary Foundation is a leader in recognizing and promoting LGBT literature. Its award lists and reviews deserve attention and constitute a sort of high-quality bibliography of recent LGBT literature.
Native Americans
The American Indian Library Association supplies a list of resources on its website, and it has recently featured a bibliography by Kelly Webster on the LIS needs of native peoples.
Noteworthy General Bibliographies and Resources for Diversity in LIS
The ALA’s Diversity Brochure concludes with a list of sample ALA resources having to do with diversity and LIS.
Ulia Gosart, an Associate of REAP Change Consultants, composed a bibliography for the New York State Library’s Making It REAL! grant project based on Dr. Clara M. Chu’s bibliography “Diversity Recruitment.”
The Colorado State Library has created a collection of resources related to libraries and diversity and has provided some resources for improving library diversity. The New Jersey State Library has done something similar, producing a very good collection.
The Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University provides a bibliography of materials on providing health services in a multicultural context. The bibliography contains material applicable to LIS. Likewise, the National Center for Cultural Competence, which recognizes our culture’s persistent and inequitable systemic disparities and attempts to improve the capacity of health care programs to address the needs of diverse citizens, has also generated a list of publications and resources that may be of some use to those attempting to promote diversity in LIS.
The Appleton Public Library wrote a two-page PDF selected bibliography on diversity.
Penn State’s MELD (Multicultural Enhanced Learning for Diversity) project has collected a useful database on diversity.
Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC), a national service-learning organization focused on diversity, hosts an annotated bibliography on service-learning and librarianship on its website.
Dr. Clara M. Chu, at UCLA, has a website that hosts pages on diversity and the LIS profession and on multicultural LIS education.
The Ohio State University website hosts a wiki in which users are engaged in producing a bibliography on LIS and diversity.
Here is an online bibliography of multicultural and anti-bias children books, and here is a site that allows one to narrow one’s book search according to ethnicity and nationality.
