formerly
The African American Leadership Group

Mentoring List | Mentoring Lunch | Student lunch | Nov 2007 Meeting
SLIS Diversity Action Plan, 2008

The African American Leadership Group is composed of twenty members of the professional library community in South Carolina . The members represent school libraries, academic libraries, public libraries and special libraries. Since its establishment in 2004, the Group has worked together to establish policy and provide leadership in areas of concern for South Carolina libraries and the School of Library and Information Science.

The Group's initial focus was issues surrounding recruitment and retention at its meeting in 2004-2005. This culminated in a presentation on recruitment and retention by Dr. Arthur Gunn, former Dean of Clark Atlanta University's Library School , at the annual conference of the South Carolina Library Association. In 2005-2006 the focus was on mentoring and setting up a mentoring network for the students at SLIS. Plans are to maintain a list of library professionals interested in actively mentoring the SLIS students from underrepresented populations.

The current academic year, 2006-2007, was spent working on a Faculty/Staff Diversity Plan and a Student Diversity Plan that was adopted by the Faculty of the School and will be implemented by its administration.