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If you have ever attended any session where I have presented and the topic of diversity has come up, you know I am quick to tell attendees that I do not give out diverse book lists. Here is my reason why: there are no diverse texts. It is in the transaction (Rosenblatt, 1986) between the reader an
Over the past few years I have been talking about three systemic ways in which collections, broadly understood, are evolving in a network environment. They are: the collective collection, the facilitated collection, and the inside-out collection.
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Romance Writers of America represented one of the sexiest and most lucrative genres in books. But writers of color say it didn’t represent them.
Libraries across Southern California are aiming to serve the immigrant readers of rapidly changing cities by purchasing books in a variety of languages.
During a trip to Mexico to visit family, writer Myriam Gurba took “American Dirt,” a novel about immigration and cartel violence that was being touted as one of the biggest U.S. releases of 2020. The writer was of mostly white descent, and Gurba felt the book didn't ring true.
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Kalamazoo Public Schools is running into controversy as the district seeks to diversify books in elementary classrooms. On Tuesday KPS confirmed that
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University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
Academic books are an important part of scholarship and have traditionally been integral to academic libraries as they develop collections to support the
Collection Evaluation for The Unseen University Library (with apologies to Sir Terry Pratchett) Introduction The goal of this analysis is to evaluate the overall usability of the Unseen University Library, located in Ankh-Morpork, Discworld. As many quantitative analysis methods are unworkable ...
Academic libraries face a wide array of streaming video content, platform, hosting, and licensing options. Which is best for your library?
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from AJ Robinson, Islamic Studies & South Asian Studies Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis. "Some people don’t expect to see themselves in the library." This comment from Vivek Shraya, 2015 recipient of the South Asia Book Award, was a moment of clarity a
Article: Gathering the needles: evaluating the impact of gold open access content with traditional subscription journals