Mea Warren, Afra Bolefski, and Naz Torabi
talk with 2001–02 LCDP Fellow Consuella
Askew (left to right)
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announce that University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library and Yale University Library will host the Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) site visits for the next cohort in 2024–2025.
The LCDP is a yearlong fellowship that aims to create a community of BIPOC leaders in research libraries and archives. The program builds upon the existing knowledge and skills of the fellows while encouraging critical exploration of fellows’ individual awareness and attitudes as well as facilitating fellows’ development and advancement of their leadership goals.
“University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is delighted to be a host for the ARL Leadership and Career Development Program,” said Clem Guthro, university librarian and interim director and publisher of University of Hawaiʻi Press, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. “As a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning we hope that engagement with Indigenous issues and Hawaiʻi’s diversity and beauty will be a source of learning and inspiration for the participants.”
“Yale University Librarian Barbara Rockenbach and I are truly excited to partner with the Association of Research Libraries to host a Leadership and Career Development Program site visit in 2025,” said Risë Nelson, director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA), Yale University Library & Collections. “We look forward to offering a meaningful experience through which LCDP Fellows may consider the many ways inclusive leadership can take shape and operate in research libraries and archives. We hope the fellows’ visit to Yale inspires transformative learning and ongoing connections with one another, our libraries, and our community that inform their future leadership, scholarship, and service.”
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
