Project to Recruit the Next Generation of Librarians: The First Year

Abstract

Five Northern Indiana regional academic libraries participate in an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) supported project awarded under the funding initiative “pre-professional program of the 21st Century Librarians.” The 3 year project, which began 1 November, 2004 to recruit diverse and younger people to the profession will allow 42 college-bound diverse high school graduates to be hired as library summer student assistants. The project’s strategies are cost-effective and measurable.