Supporting the Spectrum Scholarship Program: perspectives from the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group
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https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1432Keywords:
diversity, library school students, mentoringAbstract
The immediate past presidents and current president of the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group write to raise awareness of the American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship Program, share their approach to supporting Scholars in their region, and encourage Medical Library Association (MLA) chapters and MLA at large to build stronger infrastructures to support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color librarians who are in school and recently graduated.
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