[LM_NET] Analyzing Diversity Recruitment and Retention in School Librarianship

[Ayodele Ojumu <msojumu@YAHOO.COM>]

Dear Fellow School Library Media Specialists,

We are conducting a survey entitled Analyzing
Diversity Recruitment and Retention in School
Librarianship: Why Have Current Minorities Chosen the
Career Path to Become School Library Media
Specialists? -- a study supported by the University at
Buffalo, State University of New York, Department of
Information and Library Studies.  If you are a member
of an underrepresented minority group and a school
library media specialist, please consider completing
our survey questionnaire.

The purposes of our study are to (1) discover why
minorities who are currently school media specialists
became interested in the field, (2) to find out what
professional development opportunities exist for
minority media specialists, and (3) to determine means
of successfully retaining minorities in the field of
school librarianship.  The primary reason for the
study is not only to discover how to increase the
presence of minority school librarians, but also to
find solutions to the problem of ensuring equity
concerning recruitment into the Library and
Information Studies (LIS) graduate programs,
promotion, professional development, and personal
success. 

This study has fulfilled the requirements for
conducting human-subject research.  Your response will
be strictly anonymous.  To ensure that your voice be
heard, please send your responses as soon as possible.
 

If you are interested in participating in this survey
or have any questions, please reply to the principal
investigator, Paulette Collins at
mspaulette@yahoo.com, so that a copy of the survey can
be mailed to you via postal mail.  Include the address
to which the survey should be mailed. You will have
two weeks to complete the survey and send it back to
us in the self-addressed, stamped envelope provided.

Thank you so much! 


Sincerely,
Paulette Collins and Ayodele Ojumu
Principal and Co-Investigator
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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