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Miguel and others: Recruitment of members from Mexico is a priority for ARLIS/Texas-Mexico. We have been working diligently on this issue for the past three years with little response from librarians south of the border. We have also been working with the Executive Board to outline our next step in this process and many of our members are quite concerned with the lack of response from our colleagues in Mexico. On a positive note, the chapter does have some new leads regarding recruitment, for example instead of focusing on the Mexico City area, we will soon be focusing on the border region. Your concern is much appreciated, but I can assure you ARLIS/Texas-Mexico is doing everything possible to work towards what appears to be a common goal, namely to diversify our membership on the national level. Laura Schwartz President, ARLIS/Texas-Mexico >Delivered-To: [log in to unmask] >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) >Approved-By: "Juarez, Miguel" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:59:22 -0700 >Reply-To: "Juarez, Miguel" <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Juarez, Miguel" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Ethnic Diversity >Comments: To: "McKenzie, Karen" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] > >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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: McKenzie, Karen [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:23 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Juarez, Miguel [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ><mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] >Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 2:00 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >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 > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ted Goodman [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ><mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] >Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:57 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >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 >[log in to unmask] > > >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. 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