Only one in every 200 American librarians is a black man, according to U.S. Census statistics. That remarkable scarcity was a topic of discussion at the American Librarian Association’s annual meeting in Anaheim, California. Julius Jefferson, a researcher at the Library of Congress who is chairing a panel on the topic entitled An Endangered Species: The Black Male Librarian, recently told NPR that African-American men are not discouraged from becoming librarians; it is just not a common occurrence.
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