Supporting the Spectrum Scholarship Program: perspectives from the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group

Sarah McClung; Rachel Keiko Stark; Megan De Armond

doi:10.5195/jmla.2022.1432

Supporting the Spectrum Scholarship Program: perspectives from the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group

J Med Libr Assoc. 2022 Apr 1;110(2):243-246. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2022.1432.

Authors

Sarah McClung¹, Rachel Keiko Stark², Megan De Armond³

Affiliations

¹ sarah.mcclung@ucsf.edu, Head of Collection Development, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
² stark@csus.edu, Health Sciences Librarian, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA.
³ mde_armo@touro.edu, Assistant Professor and Research and Instruction Librarian, Touro University Nevada, Henderson, NV.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: diversity; library school students; mentoring.

MeSH terms

California
Fellowships and Scholarships*
Humans
Libraries, Medical*
Library Associations
Nevada
United States