The AAM Ethnic PIC Coalition has expanded! The four founding members (the AAM Asian Pacific American Professional Interest Committee (PIC), AAM Latino Network PIC, AAM Native Americans and Museums Collaborative PIC, and the Association of African American Museums) have broadened the group to form the AAM Diversity Coalition. New members of the coalition are the AAM AIDS Network, the AAM Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Concerns, the AAM Americans with Disabilities Taskforce, and the Council of Jewish American Museums. The group will take a more pluralistic approach to diversity issues in the museum field. The AAM Diversity Coalition meets once a month in the Washington, D.C. area to develop session proposals for the AAM annual meetings and to strategize ways of encouraging diversity in the museum field as outlined in the AAM Strategic Agenda. Discussions focus on opportunities to support diversity in museum staff, programs, governance and audiences. In light of this, the AAM Diversity Coalition is collaborating with the Association of Research Libraries and the Society of American Archivists to devise a program of leadership and career development. This program, now in the research and planning stages, will fill a void in professional development for mid-career museum and library professionals who are typically underrepresented. During the multicultural evening event “Red, Hot & Live” at the 1999 AAM Annual Meeting in Cleveland, the Coalition held a silent auction which raised close to $1000 for scholarships for young professionals to attend the 2000 AAM Annual Meeting. The group would like to provide more scholarships and is seeking additional funds or in-kind donations for next year’s silenet auction. The AAM Diversity Coalition hopes to establish a strong national network and asks that any interested members of AAM or affiliate contact the group about establishing coalitions at state and regional levels. For more information about the scholarship fund or to learn more about how you can help, please contact John T. Suau, Meetings and Diversity Coordinator at (202) 218-7676 or e-mail: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).