[Circulation] TONIGHT! Finding a Path to Librarianship: Diversity Career Night

[Natane Halasz]

Hello circ staff workers! I hope you've seen advertisements for this on
campus and in the Daily Digest. Best wishes, Natane 

  

FINDING A PATH TO LIBRARIANSHIP: DIVERSITY CAREER NIGHT 

DATE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 5-7PM 

LOCATION: MALCOLM X CULTURAL CENTER (USE SOUTH SIDE ENTRANCE BELOW
BERKSHIRE DINING COMMONS), UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST UMASS MAP
[1]; GOOGLE MAP [2]. 

GETTING TO CAMPUS: PARK IN LOTS 33, 32, OR 42 AFTER 5PM FOR FREE. PVTA
BUS INFORMATION [3]. 

Do you want a career that will allow you to be creative and
intellectually engaged? Come and explore exciting career fields in
Library and Information Science. Finding a Path to Librarianship is an
outreach effort to expand diversity within this expanding career field.
This event is free, open to all majors (and the public), and
refreshments will be provided! 

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Hear from professionals in the field about their work and career and
funding opportunities 
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Interact with librarians and library school representatives 
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Connect with mentors that will help you to learn more about the field,
apply for library school, and identify funding opportunities 

Speakers include: 

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Shauntee Burns & Elisa Garcia (New York Public Library): We Need Diverse
Librarians 
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Michelle Baildon & Nina Davis-Millis (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology): Hack the Stacks: Social Justice and Academic Librarianship 
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Katelyn Duncan (Worcester Public Library): Life as a Public Librarian in
Five (or More!) Languages 
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Diane Brown (New Haven Free Public Library): The Need for Black
Librarians 

Sponsored by the Five Colleges Libraries; Amherst College, Hampshire
College, Mount Holyoke College, UMass Amherst, and Smith College; and
the UMASS Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success. 

Contact: Erin Stalberg, Mount Holyoke College, estalber at mtholyoke.edu 

-- 
Natane Halasz
InfoBar Evening Associate
Harold F. Johnson Library
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 559-5475

 

Links:
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[1]
http://www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/sites/default/files/maps/campus-map.pdf
[2]
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Q6vQpT8Kk6r1mLqnKp8QENmPFVw&usp=sharing
[3] http://www.pvta.com/
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