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Dr. Patterson's notes and typescript for her participation in a panel discussion as part of a professional development workshop. Patterson's notes concern her perspective on diversity at the University of Oklahoma, and her suggestions on how to recruit and retain students and faculty from underrepresented communities.

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"Improving Library Media Training Programs and Services of Selected Minorities."Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Miami, FL, April 26, 1977.

Presentation created by Patterson with Norman Higgins, Arizona State University.

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"Serving the Native American Through Tribal Libraries," presented at the Fifth Annual Symposium on Information Issues: The Information Needs of Special Populations, School of Library and Information Science, The University of Oklahoma, April 23, 1993.

Scope and Contents File contains Dr. Patterson's presentation notes; Bibliography prepared by Patterson; conference program and flier; correspondence between Patterson and Lynne Hunks, Director of Library and Information Services at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre, and between Patterson and Audrey Mark, Director of Pahkisimon Nuye AH Library System; photocopied maps of Saskatchewan; Federation of Saskatchewan Indians (FSI) structure diagram; and a bundle of related Native Information Services reports...

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"Service to Native Americans," Keynote address presented at the National Conference of Librarians Serving Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, The Library of Congress, Denver, CO, May 3, 1994.

File contains two copies of speech with annotations as well as typescript notes for presentation.

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Typescript presentation and addendum from either 1999 Sixth International Conference: Crimea '99 Libraries and Associations in the Transient World in Sudak, Ukraine; or 2001 Barents Libraries Conference in Jokkmokk, Sweden.

Scope and Contents Materials related to two-day workshop for Tulsa City-County Library System, November 1980. File contains presentation overheads and notes for presentations "Why are we here?"; "What is diversity?"; "Why should we care?"; and "Multicultural librarianship: What does that have to do with me?"File also contains documents related to workshop, "Issues/factors"; post-training questionnaire; and "What you can do" handout bundled together by Patterson with Michigan State University...

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Notes from October 12 class on library services, with handwritten notation "UBC Class." Possibly from Patterson's time as a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia, fall semester 2000.

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Presentation possibly unrelated to folder's original title. Possibly from Patterson's "Using Native American videos to teach higher level thinking skills" presentation with R. Taylor at Encyclomedia, Oklahoma City, September 18, 1997.

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Notes from presentation.