This was the power point from a panel at the Reforma National Conference IV held in Denver, CO (Sept 15-18, 2001). This talk discussed a study to determine trends and practices in LIS training and preparation to become culturally competent. It also discussed the impact for librarians who don't leave Library Schools with a base proficiency.

1. LIS Cultural Competency Training Lori Mestre lmestre@illinois.edu Reforma National Conference IV Denver, CO September 17, 2011

2. Issues at Hand Preparation at Library Schools of Librarians to Serve Diverse Populations Training of Librarians to Serve Diverse Populations Impact Once on the Job

3. Data Gathered

4. Ethnicity Other = mostly biracial

5. Current Roles 78 of 107 ARL Libraries 14 of 107 ARL Libraries New Term?

6. A Need for All Librarians To Be Culturally Competent

7. Library School Preparation 87.2% entered library school not thinking about a career in multicultural librarianship

8. Did you intentionally seek a position dedicated to multicultural/diversity services? In Percentages Hiring Data

9. Diversity Preparation Did your Library School program prepare you to work with multiple constituencies? Library School Data

10. Did your library school offer a specific course in multicultural librarianship (or something similar)? From the Librarian Survey Library School Data

11. Courses with Multicultural Components

12. How Should Multicultural Librarianship be Part of the Curriculum? Library School Data

13. LibraryStrategies

14. GettingStarted: How Do I Learn To: Work with diverse cultures? Initiate, coordinate, and expand diversity-related programs at my library and institution? Better prepare all librarians to be culturally competent? Gain an entrée as liaison to the various diverse populations?

15. Most Challenging Aspect of Job

16. Greatest Challenges Working with Diverse Cultures

17. Interview Comments “It was my first professional position.” “I created the job and had to learn as I went.” “ I have been given the opportunity to vision the future of immigrant services for my library system. I do that through a great staff, a working knowledge of the research and best practices nationwide and through knowing and connecting to the community.”

18. Diversity Training Programs

19. Training Know your community

20. Visibility Library patrons…need to see themselves when they walk into the library. They need to see themselves in the displays, collections, websites, and staff, because to see yourself is the first human connection, the first human invitation to become a lifelong user of libraries...* *http://www.ala.org/ala/diversity/diversityactionb/divrecruitment/recruitmentdiversity.cfm

22. Web Pages

23. Images