Minority Librarians Seek To Update Image of White ‘Bun Lady’

This article was in a recent issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education.


Minority Librarians Seek To Update Image of White ‘Bun Lady’
By Associated Press
Dec 19, 2006, 07:56

Librarians have long been portrayed as the little old White lady with her hair in a bun and glasses on a chain around her neck, “shushing” noisy people, but Deborah Lilton represents a more modern image.

In a profession that in fact has been largely White, Lilton is a Black student at the University of Alabama who is pursuing a degree to become an academic librarian. She is one of a disproportionately small number of minorities entering a field that is trying to get past stereotypical images of the “bun lady.”

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