id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crln-22111	Robles, Patricia	THE WAY I SEE IT: Recruiting the minority librarian: The secret to increasing the numbers	1998	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1482	64	60	ALA’s Office of Library Personnel Resources (OLPR) reports the following statistics for 1995- 96: 90.1% White, 3-8% Black, 3-85% Asian/Pa­ cific Islander, 2.6% Hispanic, and .4% American Indian/Alaskan Native.1 Kathleen de la Pena McCook reports that the Association for Library and Information Science Education’s figures for 1991-92 on the degrees awarded and the number of students enrolled in library schools haven’t changed much. Overall, gains in the num ber of diverse librarians have b een very slight: minorities represented 9-9% of the total library school enrollments for fall 1992 and 8.5% o f the total accredited library school graduates for 1991-92.2 W hether it is the ALA parent organization, library schools, librarian associations, or the indi­ vidual librarian, the library profession must ag­ gressively initiate and emphasize minority recruit­ ing efforts earlier, specifically at elementary and high school grades, and not as college undergradu­ ates or graduate-level students.	cache/crln-22111.pdf	txt/crln-22111.txt