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 Black Caucus, TLA 
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Dean Washington

PURPOSE

To promote a partnership between librarians of African American descent and librarians serving the African American community that will enable them to work together and exchange information and ideas about providing services to the African American community through:

• recruitment, retention and promotion of African Americans to the profession.
• inclusion of African American librarians in local, state, and national professional organizations as active members on committees and as office holders.
• development of collections responsive to and representative of the cultural and ethnic diversity of the African American community.
• systematic work with each other to create informational tools useful to the sharing of resources across library types and sizes.
• develop communication vehicles in the form of a newsletter and home page site on the internet.
• seek opportunities to network, empower and mentor librarians serving the African American communities.
• devise effective strategies to empower our libraries and communities as well as ourselves.
• use the organization to draw other like minded librarians in to the Texas Library Association.
• foster and promote the open exchange of ideas among librarians throughout the state.