Diversity and Faculty

Faculty and staff play a very important role in the lives of students at UW-Madison. SLIS faculty come from a solid background in many areas such as information & communication technology, organization of information, digital rights management, children's literature, print culture, archives, information seeking behavior, and medical informatics. SLIS faculty have produced scholarly work in diversity including the following:  
  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Perspective from librarians of color. The Library Quarterly, 78 (2).
  • Kim, K.-S., Chiu, M.H., Sin, S.-C. J., & Robbins, L. (2007). Recruiting a diverse workforce for academic/research librarianship: Characteristics and preferences of subject specialists and librarians of color. College & Research Libraries, 68 (6): 533-552.
  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2006). Recruiting and retaining students of color in LIS programs. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 47 (2), 81-95.
  • Pawley, C. (2006). Unequal legacies: Race and multiculturalism in the LIS Curriculum. The Library Quarterly, 76 (2), 149-168.
  • Robbins, L. (2005). Changing the Geography of Reading: The Library Programs of the WPA and the Rosenwald Fund in the American South. Libraries and Culture 40 (3), 353-367.
  • Robbins, L. (2003). Publishing Pride: The Jim Crow Series of Harlow Publishing Company. In Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature, Edited by Anne H. Lundin (Westport, CT: Greenwood /Libraries Unlimited). 41-61.
  • Robbins, L. (2000). The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press).
  • Whitmire, E. (2006). African American undergraduates and the academic library. Journal of Negro Education, 75 (1), 60-66.
  • Whitmire, E. (2004). The campus racial climate and undergraduates' perceptions of the academic library. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 4 (3), 363-378.
  • Whitmire, E. (2003). Cultural diversity and undergraduates' academic library experiences. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29 (3), 148-161.