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Mission Statement (revised 1995) [7] BCALA Mission: The Black Caucus of the American Library Association serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services and resources to the nation's African-American community; and provides leadership for the recruitment and professional development of African-American librarians.
Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.
The conferences are usually dubbed; the n th AfLIA Conference and the n th African Library Summit and often held between May – July in member countries in an alternating fashion. The most recent conference was the 3rd AfLIA Conference and 5th African Library Summit, was held from 21–24 May 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. [31]
The majority of librarians working in the U.S. are female, between the ages of 55–64, and Caucasian. [1] A 2014 study by the American Library Association of research done from 2009 to 2010 shows that 98,273 of credentialed librarians were female while 20,393 were male. 15,335 of the total 111,666 were 35 and younger and only 6,222 were 65 or older. 104,393 were white; 6,160 African American ...
Wallace Van Jackson (May 6, 1900 – December 14, 1982) was an American librarian and civil rights activist.He was the director of several academic libraries over his career and was respected for developing collections that promoted the history of African Americans; he was also instrumental in creating reference services and building library collections for multiple libraries in Africa.
He served as the first African-American president of the Missouri Library Association in the early 1960s, as well as serving as the editor of the association's journal. [6] [7] [8] Marshall was an active participant in librarianship through the American Library Association, working to fight discrimination and segregation within the organization ...
Mollie Ernestine Dunlap (September 2, 1898 – July 7, 1977) was a librarian, bibliographer, and educator. Her research illuminated the scholarship of African Americans and the experience of African Americans in higher education, especially the groundbreaking publication of the Index to Selected Negro Publications Received in the Hallie Q. Brown Library.
Baton Rouge: The Louisiana Library Association, 2003. Celebrating African American Librarians and Librarianship. Library Trends, 49.1 (Summer 2000): 49–87. "A Marriage Made in Heaven or a Blind Date: Successful Library-Faculty Partnering in Distance Education". with Dana Watson. Catholic Library World. 70(September 1999): 14–22. Dawson, Alma.