Dear All,
I have been hearing ideas about diversity recruitment from a number of
ARLIS members lately. I know there are varying viewpoints on the subject
of chapters providing Diversity recruitment awards, and my own view might
even have been different a year ago. But I am pleased with the success of
the Diversity Award given by my local chapter and I think it is a good
model to continue.
This year the DC/MD/VA chapter chose to re-up on its Diversity Award, even
though we are not hosting the conference. This indicated to me that the
chapter felt it was a good way to recruit new art librarians. We will be
voting on whether or not we can add a volunteer contribution for the award
to our renewal form from now on.
I believe we need a proactive approach to recruitment and to our avowed
interest in diversifying ARLIS/NA. The only productive way is to take a
plunge and put money towards recruitment. I would love to see a national
Diversity Award. That, however, would be helping only one person to
travel; my new thought is that a lot of local involvement would encourage
more students to become art librarians. Perhaps the national contribution
could be free membership or free conference registration for recipients of
the local Diversity awards.
Dialogue about issues is good, I think. It can only produce more awareness
and more solutions. So, let's keep talking. I look forward to discussing
this issue with members of ARLIS on the list and in NYC at the Diversity
Forum on Monday at 3pm.
yours,
lucie
Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Collections/User Education Coordinator
Librarian for Art, Classical Archaeology, and
Architectural History
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4131
tele. 434-924-6604 [log in to unmask] fax:
434-982-2678
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