Committee Planning Report

NOTE: ** = Required Field

 

**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report

 

**Date: September 17, 2004

 

**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 ALA to meet us at Midwinter and Annual conferences and promote NMRT and the Diversity Committee on listservs of diversity-related groups outside the ALA.

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 ALA (e.g. AILA, APALA, BCALA, GLBTRT, REFORMA) to promote NMRT and the Diversity Committee.

 

**Report submitted by:  Dana Keyse                       

 

**Email address:  djkeyse@oaklandcc.edu