ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday June 28, 2005
Co-sponsored by the American Library Association Office for Diversity and the Association for Library Information Science Education. Supported in part by grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Summit Opening
Jose Aponte, San Diego County Library Clara Chu, UCLA Department of Information Studies
Carol Brey-Casiano, 2004-2005 ALA President
Mary Chute, IMLS
Louise Robbins, ALISE/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tracie Hall, ALA Office for Diversity
Summit Opening Audio (25:02 - mp3) | Transcript
Plenary Session I: Preparing Leaders for 21 st Century Library and Information Service
Moderator: Rhea Brown Lawson, Deputy Director, Detroit Public Library Introduction Audio (3:42 - mp3) | Transcript
General Statement of Issues by:
Mark Winston (LIS Education), Associate Professor, Rutgers University SCILS
Audio (9:56 - mp3) | Transcript
Gregory L. Reese (Public Libraries), Director, East Cleveland Public Library
Audio (8:23 - mp3) | Transcript
Camila Alire (Academic Libraries), Dean, University New Mexico Libraries
Audio (incomplete) (11:29 - mp3) | Transcript | Handout (pdf)
Claudette McLinn (School Media Centers), Supervisor, Library Services, Nonpublic Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District
Audio (incomplete) (9:28 - mp3) | Transcript
Carla Funk (Medical/ Special Libraries), Executive Director, Medical Library Association
Audio (12:54 - mp3) | Transcript
Plenary Session II: Diversity and Equity in LIS Recruitment, Education, and Readiness
Moderator: W. Michael Havener, Director, University of Rhode Island SLIS
Introduction Audio (3:48 - mp3) | Transcript
Maurice Wheeler, Associate Professor, University of North Texas SLIS
Audio (10:55 - mp3) | Transcript
Betty Turock, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University SCILS
Audio (16:16 - mp3) | Transcript | Handout (ppt)
Ravindra N. Sharma, Director, West Virginia State University Library
Audio (13:15 - mp3) | Transcript | Handout (pdf)
Reinette Jones, Interdisciplinary Information Literacy & Diversity Activities Librarian, University of Kentucky
Audio (7:08 - mp3) | Transcript
Ramiro Salazar, Director, San Antonio Public Library
Audio (9:25 - mp3) | Transcript
Plenary Session III: Don’t Just Talk About It, Be About It: New and Veteran Librarians on Connecting LIS Pedagogy and Readiness to Social Justice and Societal Change
Moderator: Bharat Mehra, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville SIS Kawanna Bright, Minority Resident Librarian, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Introduction/ Bright Audio (7:32 - mp3) | Transcript
Cheryl Aboudola, Director, Essex and Union Public Libraries and former PRISM Scholar
Audio (13:24 - mp3) | Transcript
Steve Adams, Biology & Life Sciences Librarian, Princeton, University and past participant, Minnesota Institute for Early-Career Librarians
Audio (10:50 - mp3) | Transcript
Antonia Olivas, Librarian, Auburn University Library and former Spectrum Scholar
Audio (12:49 - mp3) | Transcript
Clara Chu, Associate Professor, UCLA GSEIS
Audio (11:50 - mp3) | Transcript | Handout (ppt)