Sounds interesting - but how is minority defined? race? gender? religion?
ethnic background? sexual orientation?
Allan
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Subject: [LM_NET] Analyzing Diversity Recruitment and Retention in School
Librarianship
> Dear Fellow School Library Media Specialists,
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> 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
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> of an underrepresented minority group and a school
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> our survey questionnaire.
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> 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
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> 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
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> promotion, professional development, and personal
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