Browsing by Author "Hollingsworth, Jaena"

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    Targeting Undergraduates in Library Diversity Initiatives
    (2008-10-03) Hollingsworth, Jaena; Palmer, Kristi L.
    While many libraries actively recruit graduate and post-graduate library science students, IUPUI University Library’s diversity recruitment program focuses on an undergraduate audience who might not have otherwise considered librarianship as a profession. The fellowship’s rewards are threefold: It allows the library to immediately increase diversity among its student staff; the fellows’ projects purposefully create a more welcoming atmosphere within the library; and it introduces a variety
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    University Library’s Undergraduate Diversity Fellowship
    (2009-02-23T15:36:27Z) Hollingsworth, Jaena
    In the fall of 2007, IUPUI’s University Library welcomed its first set of Undergraduate Diversity Fellows. Created by the library’s Diversity Council, the Fellowship sought to introduce two highly-motivated students to the library and its resources as well as to librarianship as a profession. The program's conception, implementation, challenges, and results are discussed.