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I’m pleased to share this survey by Ana Ndumu and Tina D. Rollins, on recruitment of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to the library profession. If you work in an HBCU library, please consider responding!

The study is part of Dr. Ndumu’s DLF Futures fellowship project, on fostering connections between HBCUs and LIS programs — described here: https://www.diglib.org/opportunities/fellowships/futures-fellowships/


Bethany Nowviskie
Director of the Digital Library Federation, CLIR
Research Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, UVa
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From: Ana Ndumu <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:49 PM
Subject: Study on recruiting HBCU students to the library profession


Are you an HBCU librarian or library worker? Please consider participating in a 15-minute survey study on recruiting HBCU students to the library profession. Your insight can contribute toward the development of methods for strengthening partnerships between HBCU libraries and library schools.

Please access the online survey here:  https://tinyurl.com/hbculibrarians

The study's design has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Maryland (UMD IRB Study # 1327389-1). Funding for this project is made possible through the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR).

Ana Ndumu, PhD

DLF Futures Fellow
President's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Maryland College Park
College of Information
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Tina D. Rollins
Library Director
Harvey Library
Hampton University
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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