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Samantha Hines – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Librarianship as a profession in America is 88% white, according to the Diversity Counts survey conducted by the American Library Association in 2009 (ALA, 2012). The United States' White and not Hispanic/Latinx population is 60.7% according to 2017 Census estimates (United States Census Bureau). The fundamental unfairness of this power dynamic…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Personnel, Personnel Selection, Personnel Integration
Dana Adrienne Knott – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Through a critical phenomenological approach, this study captured the lived experiences of directors in the Ohio Private Academic Libraries (OPAL) consortium and their responses to dual pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic of racism. Individual qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten OPAL directors to examine…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Library Administration, Pandemics, COVID-19