Library and information science education: Preparing librarians for a multicultural society

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 385-395

  Gollop, Claudia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 0033240914     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.60.4.385     Document Type: Article

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4. Ibid., 31.
5. In 1889, the school, under the direction of Melvil Dewey, was moved to Albany and became the New York State Library School, where it remained until 1926. It then returned as the School of Library Service to what is now Columbia University. See Winifred B. Linderman, "Columbia University, School of Library Service," in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 5, ed. Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, and William Nasri (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1971), 370-90.
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7. Wayne A. Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (Chicago: ALA, 1996), 85.
8. Ibid., 48.
9. Robert Wedgeworth, "ALA and the Black Librarian: Strategies for the 70's," in The Black Librarian in America, ed. E.J. Josey (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1970), 69.
10. The author received this information as a result of a conversation with Dr. Lotsee Patterson, Associate Professor SILS, University of Oklahoma, who may be the first American Indian LIS educator. Dr. Patterson earned her doctorate in 1979. [Telephone conversation with Patterson, May 21, 1998]. Also, for more detailed information, see Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report, ed. Timothy W. Sineath (Raleigh, N.C.: Association for Library and Information Science Education), published annually.
11. Timothy W. Sineath, "Faculty," in Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report 1996, ed. Timothy W. Sineath (Raleigh, N.C.: Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1996), 3.
12. E. J. Josey, "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (fall, 1993): 303.
13. Timothy W. Sineath, "Faculty," in Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report 1993, ed. Timothy W. Sineath (Raleigh, N.C.: Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1993), 25.
14. -, "Faculty" (1996), 28.
15. Jerry D. Saye, with Wen-Chen Lan, "Students," in Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report 1998, ed. Evelyn Daniel and Jerry D. Saye (Arlington, Va.: Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1998). (These data were acquired prior to publication; page number was unavailable.)
16. Danny P. Wallace, "Students," in Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report 1996, ed. Timothy W. Sineath (Arlington, Va.: Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1996),142.
17. Academic and Public Librarians: Data by Race, Ethnicity & Sex, 1991 (Chicago: ALA, 1991), table 3.
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19. Lorna Peterson, "Strategies for Infusing Multicultural Education into the Library Science Curriculum," in Culture Keepers II: Unity through Diversity, Proceedings of the Second National Conference of African American Librarians, August 5-7, 1994, Milwaukee, Wis., ed. Stanton Biddle (Newark, N.J.: Black Caucus of the ALA, 1995), 75.
20. ALA, "News Fronts ALA," American Libraries 29, no. 6 (June/July 1998): 9.
21. See: E. J. Josey, "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (fall 1993): 302-11; -, "Education for Library Services to Cultural Minorities," Education Libraries 15, no. 3 (winter 1991): 16-22; Major Owens, "The Specter of Racism in an Age of Cultural Diversity: The New Paradigm for African American Librarians," in Black Librarian in America Revisited, ed. E.J. Josey (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1994), 286-97; Lorna Peterson, "Teaching the Practitioners: One Professor's Attempt at Library Education and Sensitivity to Multicultural Diversity," Reference Librarian 45/46 (1994): 23-28; Ismail Abdullahi, "Recruitment and Mentoring of Minority Students," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 33, no. 4 (fall 1992): 307-10.
22. See: E. J. Josey, "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (fall 1993): 302-11; -, "Education for Library Services to Cultural Minorities," Education Libraries 15, no. 3 (winter 1991): 16-22; Major Owens, "The Specter of Racism in an Age of Cultural Diversity: The New Paradigm for African American Librarians," in Black Librarian in America Revisited, ed. E.J. Josey (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1994), 286-97; Lorna Peterson, "Teaching the Practitioners: One Professor's Attempt at Library Education and Sensitivity to Multicultural Diversity," Reference Librarian 45/46 (1994): 23-28; Ismail Abdullahi, "Recruitment and Mentoring of Minority Students," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 33, no. 4 (fall 1992): 307-10.
23. See: E. J. Josey, "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (fall 1993): 302-11; -, "Education for Library Services to Cultural Minorities," Education Libraries 15, no. 3 (winter 1991): 16-22; Major Owens, "The Specter of Racism in an Age of Cultural Diversity: The New Paradigm for African American Librarians," in Black Librarian in America Revisited, ed. E.J. Josey (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1994), 286-97; Lorna Peterson, "Teaching the Practitioners: One Professor's Attempt at Library Education and Sensitivity to Multicultural Diversity," Reference Librarian 45/46 (1994): 23-28; Ismail Abdullahi, "Recruitment and Mentoring of Minority Students," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 33, no. 4 (fall 1992): 307-10.
24. See: E. J. Josey, "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (fall 1993): 302-11; -, "Education for Library Services to Cultural Minorities," Education Libraries 15, no. 3 (winter 1991): 16-22; Major Owens, "The Specter of Racism in an Age of Cultural Diversity: The New Paradigm for African American Librarians," in Black Librarian in America Revisited, ed. E.J. Josey (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1994), 286-97; Lorna Peterson, "Teaching the Practitioners: One Professor's Attempt at Library Education and Sensitivity to Multicultural Diversity," Reference Librarian 45/46 (1994): 23-28; Ismail Abdullahi, "Recruitment and Mentoring of Minority Students," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 33, no. 4 (fall 1992): 307-10.
25. See: E. J. Josey, "The Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the Recruitment of Faculty and Students from Diverse Backgrounds," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (fall 1993): 302-11; -, "Education for Library Services to Cultural Minorities," Education Libraries 15, no. 3 (winter 1991): 16-22; Major Owens, "The Specter of Racism in an Age of Cultural Diversity: The New Paradigm for African American Librarians," in Black Librarian in America Revisited, ed. E.J. Josey (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Pr., 1994), 286-97; Lorna Peterson, "Teaching the Practitioners: One Professor's Attempt at Library Education and Sensitivity to Multicultural Diversity," Reference Librarian 45/46 (1994): 23-28; Ismail Abdullahi, "Recruitment and Mentoring of Minority Students," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 33, no. 4 (fall 1992): 307-10.
26. Veronica E. Nance-Mitchell, "A Multicultural Library: Strategies for the Twenty-First Century," College & Research Libraries 57, no. 5 (Sept., 1996): 408.
27. Kathleen M. Heim, "Librarians for the New Millennium," in Librarians for the New Millennium (Chicago: ALA, 1988), 7.
28. Timothy W. Sineath, "Faculty," in Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report 1998, ed. Timothy W. Sineath (Washington, D.C.: Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1998), 16. The author is referring to, primarily, states located in the Southern Mountain, the Rocky Mountain, and portions of the Middle-West regions: Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming, and Minnesota.