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Professionalism + Leadership at Every Level

Management + Business Acumen

Diverse and Inclusive Recruiting for the Future: Early Recruitment into Law Librarianship

Monday, July 22, 2024

1:15pm - 2:15pm CDT

Room: Grand Hall LMN (East Tower Gold Level)

Moderator/Coordinator(s)

Karen Skinner (she/her/hers)

Associate Director of Public Services and Teaching Assistant Professor
University of Colorado - Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, United States

Slides (PDF) Handouts

Speaker(s)

Daisy De Anda (she/her/hers)

Manager, User Experience & Vendor Relations
SheppardMullin
Los Angeles, California, United States
Diana Jaque (she/her/hers)

Associate Dean, John Stauffer Law Library Director and Adjunct Professor of Law
University of Southern California
Judy Lee (she/her/hers)

Senior Research Analyst
Sidley Austin LLP
Los Angeles, California, United States
Sangeeta Pal (she/her/hers)

Access Services Librarian
UCLA Law Library

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Diverse and inclusive recruitment into law librarianship and the legal information profession is a common goal across all types of law libraries. This program provides a practical avenue to pursue this goal by outlining a comprehensive framework for establishing a transformative internship program aimed at high school students, particularly those students from underrepresented communities, thereby exposing them to a career in law librarianship and the legal profession. Best practices and strategies for adapting such a program for various locales will be addressed..

Target Audience:

Librarians and organizations interested in recruitment to the profession and increasing diversity, equity, and inclusivity in law librarianship and the legal information profession.

This program is sponsored by the Social Responsibilities SIS (SR-SIS).

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn essential components and best practices for executing a successful internship program.
Participants will be able to develop a road map to implement a diverse and inclusive internship program to nurture future legal information professionals.
Participants will discover methods to enhance the success of an internship program by leveraging lessons learned from past experiences to ensure a mutually beneficial arrangement for both interns and employer hosts.