Welcome! BIPOC Become Librarians is a three-phase project designed to showcase librarianship as a profession to undergraduate students.
Phase 1: Focus groups. The team met with eight different focus groups to gather information on students' perception of librarianship, including archives and museums, as a profession, as well as their expectations about career prospects in the field.
Phase 2: Mentorship: Students and mentors are matched so that students can explore the many career paths within the field and be guided by an experienced professional.
Phase 3: Internship. Mentors, the students, and the BBL team work together to place interested students in internship opportunities.
2022
October 2022
October 25 - Focus Group Session #1 with students
October 26 - Focus Group Session #2 with students
October 27 - Focus Group Session #3 with students
October 28 - Focus Group Session #4 with students
October 30 - Focus Group Session #5 with students
November 2022
November 2 - Focus Group Session #6 and #7 with students (morning/afternoon sessions)
November 8 - Focus Group Session #8 with students
Analyze focus group data - BBL Team
2023
February 2023
February 6 - Mentee Training Session with Dr. Jerome Offord, Associate University Librarian for Antiracism at Harvard University.
February 13 - Mentor Training Session with Dr. Jerome Offord, Associate University Librarian for Antiracism at Harvard University.
February 21 - Mentee and Mentor Training Session with Dr. Jerome Offord, Associate University Librarian for Antiracism at Harvard University.
March 2023
March 17 - Ask Me Anything: Lunch with a Librarian with Mantra Roy, SJSU (optional)
March 24 - Ask Me Anything: Lunch with a Librarian with Mantra Roy, SJSU (optional)
April 2023
April 10 - Mentors Meeting #1
Mentor/Mentee matching by the BBL team
May - July 2023
Ongoing - BBL team researches potential internships for mentees
August 2023
August 3 - Mentor/mentee meetings begin. Meetings are held monthly, and mentees must participate in 8-10 meetings to remain in the program.
Internships for mentees begin. Internships run for various lengths of time, depending on the sponsoring institution.
October 2023
Satisfaction survey distributed to mentors and mentees
2024
March 2024
Satisfaction survey distributed to mentors and mentees
Field trip to UC Berkeley Libraries
May 2024
Mentorship program concludes
Satisfaction survey distributed to mentors and mentees
Satisfaction survey distributed to interns and internship hosts
June-July 2024
Ongoing - BBL team creates a shareable toolkit of BBL resources