Recruiting and retaining minorities for LIS schools: perspectives from the minorities

Selected for its research properties under Research Topic 3 - Recruitment and Retention of Library and Information Studies (LIS) Students and Faculty, Kim's project will assess what LIS schools and other library/information professional associations have been doing for the recruitment and retention of minority students, from the minorities' point of view. The project's objectives are to identify successful and unsuccessful strategies that LIS schools and other related associations have used for recruiting and retaining minority students. The project will provide suggestions to improve the recruitment and retention of minority students; which will ultimately contribute to the ethnic/cultural diversity in librarianship. Kim will also use a Web survey method to collect data.

Resulting publications & presentations:

• Kim, K.-S. Recruiting and Retaining Students of Color in LIS Programs: Perspectives of Library and Information Professionals. Report of Findings from Diversity Research Grant: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kskim/diversity_preliminary_findings.html(more information available at http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kskim/diversity.html
• Kim, K.-S., and Sin, S.-C. J. (2006). Recruiting and retaining students of color in LIS programs: Perspectives from librarians. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 47 (2), 81-5. https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1673385351/recruiting-and-retaining-students-of-color-in-lis
• Kim, K.-S., Chiu, M. H., Sin, S.-C. J., and Robbins, L. (2007). Recruiting a diverse workforce for academic/research librarianship: Career decisions of subject specialists and librarians of color. College & Research Libraries, 68 (6), 533-552.
• Kim, K.-S., and Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Strategies suggested by librarians of color. Library Quarterly, 78 (2), 153–177.