Targeting Undergraduates in Library Diversity Initiatives

Abstract

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