NOTE: ** = Required Field
**Type of report being submitted: Diversity Committee Planning Report
**Date:
**Committee Name: Diversity Committee
**Supervising Board Member: Shelly McCoy, NMRT Outreach Director
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Courtney L. Young, Chair
**Committee members: Tiffani Conner, Dana Keyse, Cassandra Osterloh, Joyce Radcliff, Shaundra Walker, Martha Yancey
**Committee Charge:
“The purpose of the committee is to recruit ethnic minorities into membership in the American Library Association and the New Members Round Table and actively involve them in the inner workings and leadership of NMRT.”
The committee plans to update the charge to reflect
recruitment and retention of a more diverse membership extending beyond race and
ethnicity. Changes to be submitted to the Handbook Committee
by
**2003 - 2004 Project Description / Goals:
Plan, implement, and support projects that will attract
diverse librarians and library school students for membership in NMRT. Make programmatic
suggestions to NMRT president and directors of committees interested in
suggestions.
Explore ways to partner and work with other diverse
Explore ways to communicate and work with the ALA Diversity Committee.
Explore ways to measure success of diverse membership recruitment and participation in NMRT.
**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products):
1. Revise committee information in NMRT Handbook
2. Create and make available handouts at Midwinter and Annual Meeting booths
Financial Report Section:
|
Your budget appropriation (see
budget) |
a. $0 |
Amount which you have spent so far this year |
b. $0 |
Your estimated additional expenses this year |
c. $0 |
|
Total of amount spent and additional "estimated"
expenses for this year (b+c) |
d. $0 |
|
Difference between budgeted amount and total
expenses from above (a-d) |
e. $0 |
f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year
(either money or in-kind gifts), list here:
N/A
g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?) N/A
h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?) N/A
Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)
a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form
creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc):
Updating Committee page information.
b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description)
N/A
c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other
discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):
1. Flyers for conference booths
2. Submissions in November and January Footnotes
3. Other
publicity as suggested by NMRT officers or collaborations with
**Report submitted by:
Courtney L. Young, Diversity Chair
**Email address: clyoung@psu.edu