Introduction

Abstract

The Fall 2003 issue of RBM included an article entitled “RBMS, Special Collections, and the Challenge of Diversity: The Road to the Diversity Action Plan” by Julie Grob, Chair of the RBMS Task Force on Diversity. In it she stated, “Since its debut in 1986, neither RBM nor RBML [Rare Books and Manuscript Librarianship, the predecessor to RBM] has ever published a single article on racial and ethnic collections, despite awareness of the lack of diversity in the section and the occurrence of pre-conference sessions on ethnic collections … Marvin Taylor (RBM co-editor, 2000–2003) says that the editorial board . . .