The past and present states of racial and ethnic representations in academic librarianship indicate a lack of progress in recruiting librarians of color in the workforce. To meet the challenges of the changing student demographics in US Higher Education in the twenty-first century, it is vital that academic and research libraries be more proactive in recruiting a workforce as ethnically and culturally diverse as the users that they serve. By increasing the number of minority academic librarians, we will better reflect the multicultural community is being served and offer an environment that is more open, receptive and conductive to the success of all those who use the libraries.
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