Appendix B: questions for deans and directors of libraries
4. How many librarians work in your organization?
5. How many visible ethnic-minority librarians work in your organization?
6. Does your organization have a hiring policy that gives priority to hiring ethnic minorities, women, indigenous people, etc?
7. Does your organization have a hiring policy that requires hiring a citizen of its own country first?
8. Do you require an MLIS degree that meets accreditation standards for your country before hiring a librarian?
10. Does your organization recognize the credentials of professional librarians from:
11. Do you believe that there is a leadership crisis in libraries in your organization?
a. Did your organization miss great opportunities?
b. Can you mention a situation that was not handled correctly?
13. If yes to question 11, what steps are you taking to meet future leadership needs?
14. Are you offering any leadership programs at your organization?
15. What leadership programs does your organization offer? Please elaborate?
16. How long have you been offering them?
17. If you do not offer leadership programs, do you send your librarians to other leadership programs?
18. If yes to the above question, does the program fit your future needs for leaders for your libraries? How?
19. If you are not currently offering leadership programs, what plans, if any, do you have for the future?
20. Do you have plans to offer a tailored program that suits the needs of your organization and its libraries?
21. If you do offer a leadership program, please tell us about it.
24. Format of the program (individual assignments, team work, number of days per month, etc.)
25. Does your program cover information on cross-cultural leadership? Please explain.
26. What other kinds of training do your offer to librarians?
27. Do you have any programs that focus on ethnic-minority leadership in libraries?
28. Do you have any plans to offer such a program?
29. Do you have plans to stop offering your current leadership program?