Open AccessThe Role of Recruitment in Achieving Goals Related to Diversity
Author(s) -
Mark Winston
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
college and research libraries/college and research libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2150-6701
pISSN - 0010-0870
DOI - 10.5860/crl.59.3.240
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , academic library , specialty , public relations , knowledge management , computer science , psychology , sociology , political science , library science , psychiatry , anthropology
One of our diversity-related goals is to broaden the number of perspectives represented in academic library decision-making, administration, and library services. The research conducted in library and information science, as well as that conducted in numerous other disciplines, provides a basis for identifying those factors that have an impact on the decisions of individuals to choose a particular profession and/or professional specialty. This information should inform our recruitment strategies, as we identify approaches that will prove effective in increasing the number of minority academic librarians, and thus help to achieve our goals related to diversity.