Since the mid 1980s academic libraries have established minority residency programs in an effort to increase the representation of librarians of color in their institutions. Now more than a decade later, these programs continue to be developed. Essays written by librarians of color who participated in residency programs, and administrators whose institutions made the programs possible, remind us of the continuing need for diversity in academic libraries.

The effective training of individuals in the new wave of library professionals who will replace those of the outgoing "baby boomer" generation is essential to the future success of libraries. Residency programs will undoubtedly serve as the backbone of this transition process.

"The New Graduate Experience: Post-MLS Residency Programs and Early Career Librarianship" is a much-needed text that will complement the limited, existing publications on library residency programs, serving to complete the record of residency program activity over a series of successive decades, management...