Volume 25, Number 2 (2006)

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    Cover
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    Table of Contents
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    Discussion Questions
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    Forthcoming Issues of Indiana Libraries
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    Forward: Diversity in Indiana Libraries
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Evans, Karen
    We have become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic, different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. -Jimmy Carter. Diversity, what does the word mean to you? How does the term influence your library?
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    From Japanese Tea Ceremony to Spanish Guitars: The Library is a Perfect Place for Cultural Exchange
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Burdine, Flo
    In a central Indiana town skirted by industry and agriculture, there is a fascinating place ripe with opportunities for cultural exchange. Frankfort, Indiana has become a melting pot of cultures that has grown to include Japanese business executives and their families, immigrant Hispanic farm and factory employees, Anglo farmers, businessmen and blue-collar factory workers. The Frankfort Community Public Library, nestled in the heart of Frankfort, has become a gathering place for all people to meet. The library has become the cultural center of the community.
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    Hammond, Indiana: A Legacy of Diversity
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2006) Swisher, Linda Herrick
    The Hammond Public Library was established in 1903 through the efforts of the Shakespeare Club, comprising many of the city’s teachers. It was housed in a Hammond millinery shop. Hammond’s leading citizens donated weighty tomes and magazines of interest to them and their friends. In the beginning, residents had to be recommended for membership and pay a subscription. Their names still exist in the original minutes of the library board.
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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?
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