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*SJSU SLIS Diversity Committee Welcomes ALA President Molly Raphael and ALA
Director Miguel Figueroa for a Colloquium*

Save the Date!  Please join us on Monday, March 26th at 12:00pm PDT via
Collaborate for a for an exciting presentation by ALA President Molly
Raphael and Miguel Figueroa, Director of ALA’s Office for Diversity.

Entitled "Empowering Diverse Voices," President Raphael and Mr. Figueroa
will discuss President Raphael’s Diversity Leadership Initiative.  They
will cover the various elements and activities of the Initiative and the
role of diversity leadership within libraries and LIS programs like SLIS.
 Participants will learn what’s been done thus far, what we can expect over
the next few months and strategies to extend the Initiative beyond Molly’s
term as ALA President.

Date, Time, and Location: Monday, March 26th from 12:00 noon to 1:00pm
(Pacific time) via Collaborate.  Please use the following link to access
the session:
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=M.64D7CE7D5B8626AA1C1D4F7DAE098A
***no password is necessary

The session will be recorded.  A link to the recorded session will be sent
out directly following the presentation.

About Molly Raphael:
Molly Raphael began her career as a youth librarian with the District of
Columbia Public Library (DCPL); she spent over 30 years with DCPL and
eventually was appointed Director of that system.  In 2003, Raphael was
recruited to lead the award-winning Multnomah County Library (MCL) in
Portland, Oregon.  During her tenure, she increased diversity in library
employment, collections and programming and was awarded the Arthur Flemming
Civil Rights Award.  Under her leadership, MCL achieved consistently top
national rankings among urban public libraries and the highest gross
circulation of any library in the country, surpassing libraries serving
much larger populations.  MCL, a nationally recognized leader in developing
early literacy services and programs to reach out to underserved,
culturally diverse communities, was selected in 2009 to receive the
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Medal for Museum
and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor for museums and libraries.

About Miguel Figueroa:

Miguel Figueroa is the director of the American Library Association’s (ALA)
Office for Diversity and the acting director of the Office for Literacy and
Outreach Services (OLOS).  He is co-editor of the book Staff Development
Strategies That Work!: Stories and Strategies from New Librarians
(Neal-Schuman, 2008). Prior to joining the American Library Association, he
worked at the Middle Atlantic Regional Medical Library at the NYU Health
Science Libraries and as associate director of publishing for Neal-Schuman
Publishers. Figueroa graduated in 2003 from the Knowledge River Program,
part of the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the
University of Arizona (Tucson), with a strong focus on the impact of
diversity on libraries and library services.


We hope you will join us!
-Kristen
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Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Ph.D., MLIS
Assistant Professor
School of Library & Information Science
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA 95192-0029
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