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Leadership in Libraries: A Focus on Ethnic-minority Librarians
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| Maha Kumaran |
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Item Number: 978-1-84334-658-6 |
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Publisher: Chandos |
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Price: $85.00 |
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212 pages
6" x 9"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-84334-658-6
Year Published: 2012
As our communities grow more diverse, leadership positions in the library must reflect the changing makeup of our culture. This important book highlights the need to expand traditional views of leadership positions to embrace minorities. Aimed at anyone interested in cross-cultural leadership, it both gives real-world examples of the particular challenges facing minorities and provides those in the dominant culture with tools to understand their own role in maintaining the status quo. Probing library school programs and their efforts to develop leadership skills among librarians in general, and among minority librarians in particular, author Kumaran introduces the concept of ethnic-minority leadership, defining it in terms of culture, profession, and gender. She then profiles several successful minority leaders in different fields and offers statistical data on minorities and librarians in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. An engaging and valuable sourcebook for keeping pace with changing cultures, this book addresses a topic important for any librarian working toward becoming a leader.
About the Author
Maha Kumaran is the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. She was previously the Virtual Reference Librarian at Saskatoon Public Library (SPL), and has also served as the Adult/Young Adult Librarian at SPL. She has worked in Canadian libraries for the last 16 years.
Reviews
“While it has clear value to ethnic minority librarians, it deserves a much wider audience from all interested in leadership, library education and ethnic diversity in the workplace.”
--The Australian Library Journal
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