Browsing by Author "Holliday, Deloice"

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    ALA Conference: New Orleans
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2007) Holliday, Deloice
    The first thing I noticed about New Orleans was the length of time it took to get there and the variety of things that caused delays. Yes, you guessed it; my number came up as one of those randomly selected airline passengers who gets called over to the side to be checked by a “female security person.” I tried unsuccessfully to engage the female security person in a conversation about how and why I was selected for the wand and pat down, but she just kept saying, “Ma’am, just be quiet, this won’t take long.” I tried to be quiet but wanted to know, how does this random thing work? She continued to “shush” me. Finally after my bag and I were “wanded,” I was released to continue my flight, or so I thought.
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    Measuring Diversity in Indiana Libraries
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Holliday, Deloice
    According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook 2004-2005, in 2002 librarians held about 167,000 jobs, holding positions in schools, special, academic, and public libraries. Employment for librarians is expected to grow primarily because of the anticipated exodus of librarians in line for retirement during the next decade. This should be exciting news for the profession, but there is an expected shortfall of librarians. Fewer people are entering the profession; coupled with low pay and jobs outside of the traditional setting such as information brokers is causing some to wonder where this leaves librarians. For this discussion let us focus on relatively recent concepts and trends in librarianship such as the makeup of the profession, and its customer base. Some questions that will be addressed are: is it important to have a culturally diverse library workforce? More importantly, what’s the makeup of library leadership and is it diverse? Who is at the helm in your library: men, minorities, women?