20 U.S.C. § 9165 — Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 94-462 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 341 words · no verdicts yet
The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program develops a diverse library workforce through recruitment, education, leadership, professional development, and research projects.
(a) The purpose is to develop a diverse librarian workforce by (1) recruiting and educating future librarians from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, including encouraging middle-school, high-school, and postsecondary students to pursue library* and information-science careers; (2) developing diverse and underrepresented faculty and library leaders, including by strengthening graduate library and information-science schools; and (3) improving librarian and workforce training so they can meet community needs involving education, lifelong learning, work, economic and business development, health information, critical thinking, digital, financial, and other literacy skills, and new technology. (b) From section 9123(a)(2) funds, the Director* may make grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other assistance arrangements with libraries, consortia and associations, higher-education institutions, and other suitable entities for projects that (1) increase students in nationally accredited graduate programs preparing for library careers; (2) recruit future professionals, including promising middle-, high-school, and postsecondary students; (3) develop or improve professional-development programs; (4) improve nationally accredited graduate curricula; (5) improve doctoral education to develop future faculty and leaders; and (6) conduct research supporting recruitment and education. (c) The Director must establish review and evaluation procedures.
It is the purpose of this part to develop a diverse workforce of librarians by—
recruiting and educating the next generation of librarians from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, including by encouraging at the middle school, high school, and postsecondary levels students to pursue careers in library* and information science;
developing faculty and library leaders from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, including by increasing the institutional capacity of graduate schools of library and information science; and
enhancing the training and professional development of librarians and the library workforce to enable librarians and the library workforce to meet the needs of their communities, including those needs relating to education, lifelong learning, workforce development, economic and business development, health information, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills*, financial and other types of literacy skills, and new and emerging technology.
From the amounts provided under section 9123(a)(2) of this title, the Director* may enter into arrangements, including grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other forms of assistance, with libraries, library consortia and associations, institutions of higher education (as defined in section 1001 of this title), and other entities that the Director determines appropriate, for projects that further the purpose of this part, such as projects that—
increase the number of students enrolled in nationally accredited graduate library and information science programs and preparing for careers of service in libraries;
recruit future professionals, including efforts to attract promising middle school, high school, or postsecondary students to consider careers in library and information science;
develop or enhance professional development programs for librarians and the library workforce;
enhance curricula within nationally accredited graduate library and information science programs;
enhance doctoral education in order to develop faculty to educate the future generation of library professionals and develop the future generation of library leaders; and
conduct research, including research to support the successful recruitment and education of the next generation of librarians.
The Director shall establish procedures for reviewing and evaluating projects supported under this part.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 264, as added Pub. L. 111–340, title II, § 207, Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3602; amended Pub. L. 115–410, § 15, Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5419.)
- 2010Enacted · Pub. L. 94-462 · 124 Stat. 3602
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-410 · 132 Stat. 5419
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