Karen:
I agree, we need to be inclusive and include ethnicity from all member
countries. I'd like to know what Canadian ARLIS/NA members are doing to
mentor/coach/recruit ethnic minorities for careers in art librarianship? Is
there an internship program that seeks to recruit and introduce Canadian
ethnic minorities to art librarianship? How successful have your efforts
been? We can learn much from your successes. :-)
Also, there's not even a Mexican representative on the ARLIS/NA board so
there may not be much representation (except from some of the book vendors)
from Mexico. Can headquarters provide us with a number of ARLIS/NA members
from Mexico (on-going, year to year members and not only people who receive
the travel awards and come to one conference). Perhaps an ARLIS/Mexico
Chapter could be formed. Is representation from Mexico an issue, should it
be one?
Miguel Juarez, Assistant Librarian
Art, Art Education, Art History, Photography
Center for Creative Photography Library
University of Arizona Library
P.O. Box 210103, Tucson, AZ 85721-0103
Phone: (520) 626-9434/FAX: (520) 621-9444
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From: McKenzie, Karen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Ethnic Diversity
If I may add another dimension to this string, and to Miguel's comments:
the NA in ARLIS/NA denotes North America, not USA, and we Canadians would be
grateful if the language in this discussion were more inclusive. These are
not issues unique to visible minorities within the US (as I've recently
learned after attempting unsuccessfully to find a Native Canadian library
school student to work on a project). How diverse is Canada? for starters,
53% of the population of Toronto hails from Latin America, China, Taiwan,
South Asia, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East.
Karen McKenzie
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Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Ethnic Diversity in At Librarianship--My Take
Ted:
My take on the travel awards is that few persons of color who live and work
in the United States and work as art librarians or in art libraries in the
past have received those awards. I know of several persons of color
(including myself) who have applied twice and have been denied both times.
In a recent case, I heard a person applied three times before she was given
the award! In addition, I know committee chairs appoint their committees
(usually persons they feel comfortable with, people who are like them and
look like them). My question, how much of the appointment process stifles
committee processes and produces biases? I guess there is no easy answer to
this question.
National standards for increasing ethnic and racial diversity in
librarianship already exist. When ALA talks about increasing the numbers of
librarians of color in librarianship, they are talking about Hispanics,
African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans and Pacific
Islanders (which are known as under-represented groups) and not everyone
under the sun. http://www.ala.org/diversity <http://www.ala.org/diversity>
In regards to the conversation I had with B.J., the Ethnic Caucus seeks to
support library school students of color to attend ARLIS/NA Conferences to
introduce them to art librarianship. If we can expose them to the field via
a conference, maybe down the road they will consider art librarianship as a
career option.
Miguel Juarez, Assistant Librarian
Art, Art Education, Art History, Photography
Center for Creative Photography Library
University of Arizona Library
P.O. Box 210103, Tucson, AZ 85721-0103
Phone: (520) 626-9434/FAX: (520) 621-9444
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From: Ted Goodman [ mailto:[log in to unmask]
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Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Ethnic Diversity in At Librarianship
There is a complete listing of all past travel award winners on the
ARLIS/NA website under awards:
http://www.arlisna.org/travelpast.htm
<http://www.arlisna.org/travelpast.htm>
It does not include this year's winners yet because the webpage is being
totally revised. This year's award winners included a Native-American
woman, a Turkish woman, and a Chilean woman.
Ted Goodman
Past President
ARLIS/NA
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At 11:20 AM 04/02/2002 -0500, b.j. irvine wrote:
> What are we doing in ARLIS/NA to support ethnic diversity through
>conference attendance? How many ethnically diverse librarians have
>received travel awards to attend our annual conferences? During the
>St.Louis conference Miguel Juarez and I were having a conversation about
>this very topic.
> Hopefully, the Diversity Committee will have some recommendations about
>these concerns.
>
>B. J. Kish Irvine, Ph.D.
>Fine Arts Librarian
>Indiana University
>Bloomington, IN 47405
>(812) 855-5743 or fax (812) 855-3443
>
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