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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
Youmans, Tasha Lucas – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to disclose the claims of an impending shortage of librarians in academic libraries as it relates to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The target population of this study was HBCU libraries that had a full-time equivalent enrollment of 3,000 students or more and that were accredited by the Southern…
Descriptors: Librarians, Black Colleges, Academic Libraries, Leadership