Arpita Bose, MAR Outreach and Communications Coordinator, participated in the American Library Association’s Spectrum Leadership Institute Professional Options Fair on July 9 in Chicago, IL. At the Fair, Spectrum Scholars had the opportunity to speak with practitioners about careers in the library profession. Miguel Figueroa, Director of the ALA Office for Diversity (and past MAR Network Services Coordinator), helped organize the Fair and other events in the Spectrum Leadership Institute.

The Spectrum Scholarship Program is ALA's national diversity and recruitment effort, designed to address the specific issue of under-representation of critically needed ethnic librarians within the profession while serving as a model for ways to bring attention to larger diversity issues in the future. Learn more about the ALA Spectrum Scholarship