Current Students

As a graduate student in SLIS, you will find there are many resources available to you on and off campus. If you are interested in learning about organizations, employment in diversity residency programs, or internships here are some of the programs underway at various institutions: 

Diversity Organizations

The library profession has many organizations at the local and national levels focusing on diversity. 

Local

  • Community of Graduate Research Scholars
  • NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison Creating Community
  • Multicultural Graduate Network
  • Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation

    • National

  • ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table
  • ALA Office for Diversity
  • American Indian Library Association (AILA)
  • Archivists & Archives of Color Roundtable
  • Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
  • Black Caucus of the ALA (BCALA)
  • Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)
  • Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT)
  • HBCU Library Alliance
  • Korean American Librarians & Information Professionals Association (KALIPA)
  • LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP)
  • Middle East Librarians Association
  • REFORMA
  • Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)

    • Residency Programs

    Library residency programs provide opportunities to gain professional library experience in a number of settings including public, academic, special, and archival library settings. Check out the following programs for more information. There is also a blog about library residency programs. See
  • Library Residency Working Group for more details. 

  • ARL Research Library Residency and Internship Programs Database
  • ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute
  • Georgetown Law Library: Library Resident Program
  • Kansas State Libraries: Post MLS-Residency Program
  • NLM/NIH Associate Fellowship Program
  • North Carolina State University Fellows
  • OCLC Minority Librarian Fellowship Program
  • Ohio State University: Mary P. Key Diversity Residency Program
  • Purdue University: Diversity Fellowship Program
  • University of Buffalo: Jean Blackwell Hutson Library Residency Program
  • University of Delaware: Pauline A. Young Residency
  • University of Iowa: Librarian Residency Program
  • University of New Mexico: Resident Program
  • University of Notre-Dame: Librarian In-Residence Program
  • University of Tennessee Knoxville: Diversity Residency Program

    • Internship Opportunities

    Internships allow students to work in real world settings guided by knowledgeable and experienced supervisors. Internships help one explore career options and provide potential employers a valuable perspective of a student's interests and experience. 

  • Cultural Resources Diversity Program (National Park Service)
  • Smithsonian Internship Opportunities: Office of Research Training and Services' Internship Program
  • Spectrum Wiki: Internships and Assistantships


    • Diversity Forum

    The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison kicked off its Centennial Year Celebration on February 10, 2006, with a forum on diversity and a reception honoring campus colleagues, area librarians and other friends. The forum shared information on career opportunities in the field of library and information studies, addressed diversity issues in librarianship, and education for librarianship. 

    Diversity: Enhancing Our Learning Community included presentations by Rhea Lawson, Director of the Houston (Texas) Public Library and LeRoy LaFleur, reference/liaison librarian at George Mason University, Virginia; and Tracie Hall, head of the Office for Diversity, American Library Association, in Chicago. The program also introduced an undergraduate internship program which is a cooperative venture of the School of Library and Information Studies and the UW-Madison General Library System.