‘Endangered Species’: Black Male Librarian

Julius Jefferson, a researcher at the Library of Congress, wants to recruit and retain more black men as librarians. The Bryant Park Project, June 27, 2008 · We’re used to hearing about racial and gender disparities in many professions, but here’s one instance of it you probably haven’t heard about before:Of the roughly 110,000 credentialed librarians in the United States, only about 600 are black men. That’s about 0.5 percent of all librarians.

Put another way, if they all got together for a meeting, they could probably hold it comfortably in your local library.  Full story at NPR   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91955374&ft=1&f=1013