Brittani Sterling, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, and James Cheng (all Libraries) were awarded a 2020 ALA Diversity Research Grant for their project, We're Still Here at Mid-Career: The Retention of Academic Librarians of Color and Our Lived Experiences. 

The ALA office for diversity, literacy, and outreach services sponsors this grant program to address critical gaps in the knowledge of equity, diversity, and inclusion issues within library and information science. 

This project will conduct oral history interviews of at least 20 people. The primary outcomes of this research seek to find more definitive answers about who is mid-career and what efforts, such as mentorship programs or anti-microaggression trainings, affect the retention of academic librarians. This study will guide institutions, library administrators, and professional development programs in supporting librarians of color as they transition to the next stage of their career.