NOTE: ** = Required Field
**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning
Report
**Date:
**Committee Name:
Diversity
**Supervising Board Member: Tanzi Merritt
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Dana Keyse
**Committee members:
Kawanna Bright, Devon Crosby-Helms, Jody Gray, Colleen Major, Susy
Moorhead, Lisa Nguyen, Patricia Pereira-Pujol, Chun-Yu Wu
**Committee Charge:
The purpose
of the committee is to facilitate the recruitment of a diverse membership in
the American Library Association and the New Members Round Table and actively
involve them in the inner workings and leadership of NMRT. This includes women,
persons from traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, persons
with disabilities, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Academic
librarians, public librarians, school librarians, corporate librarians, special
librarians, library school students, and library supporters also add to the
diversity of NMRT.
**2004 - 2005 Project Description / Goals:
Survey NMRT members via email and web form between Midwinter
and Annual to get an idea of how diverse the membership currently is and also
solicit ideas of how to further encourage librarians, library school students
and library supporters from underrepresented groups to join NMRT.
Support the ALA Committee on Diversity's programming for
annual conference relating to discussion of one-dimensional/stereotypical image
of librarianship, particularly its impact on the recruitment of diverse
individuals to the profession.
**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products):
Finalize content of survey at Midwinter; Distribute survey
via email and web form by April; Analyze and share data by Annual
Serve as mentors under the NMRT Mentoring Committee to reach
out to diverse members of NMRT at both Midwinter and Annual conferences.
Invite members from various diversity-related listservs
within
Financial Report Section:
Your budget
appropriation (see budget) |
a. $50 |
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. $50 |
f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year
(either money or in-kind gifts), list here:
none
g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list,
what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations
Committee?) none
h. Vendor support received: (From the above list,
what if any, has been received?) none
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):
Web form creation and web
database - survey to gather diversity data from within NMRT membership
(March/April 2005 - flexible)
b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated
numbers needed and brief job description)
none
c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other
discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.):
Posting to various diversity-related discussion lists within
and outside of
**Report submitted by: Dana Keyse
**Email address: djkeyse@oaklandcc.edu