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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.
The fastest library growth happened in urban cities such as Atlanta while rural towns, particularly in the American South, were slower to add Black libraries. [1] Andrew Carnegie and the Works Progress Administration helped establish libraries for African Americans, including at historically Black college and university campuses. [ 1 ]
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.
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
Senior Policy Fellow, American Library Association to advise the Washington Office on Public Policy and Advocacy: Loida Garcia-Febo: 2018–2019: Wanda Kay Brown: 2019–2020: President, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2006-2008. First president from a HBCU (historically black college or university). C. G.
Each state has a state library agency which distributes federal library funds received from the IMLS. “There are fifty-seven state and regional library association chapters affiliated with the American Library Association, each including at least a committee or section that addresses public library issues. Generally these associations hold an ...
At that time, the Auburn Avenue Research Library and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City were the only two research libraries in African-American culture in the nation. Morrison, however, was determined to "build a library in the African-American area, with county funds." [4]
Regina Smith – librarian at Jenkins Law Library, a membership library in Philadelphia; Wilfred I. Smith – 5th Dominion Archivist (National Archivist) of Canada; Frances Lander Spain (1903–1999) – American Library Association President 1960–61; Ainsworth Rand Spofford – 6th Librarian of Congress; John G. Stephenson – 5th Librarian ...