A Survey of the Experiences of African Librarians in American Academic Libraries
Abstract
A national research study was undertaken to identify and clarify issues related to the employment in academic settings of African librarians who have relocated to the United States. It examined, by means of a survey, employment issues concerned with education, credentialing, language skills and cultural bias from the perspective of those librarians and concluded with a recommendation regarding the manner in which their skills might be utilized for the benefit of their homelands.
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Copyright ©2013 Abiodun I. Ibraheem and Christopher Devine, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC
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