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Journal articles on the topic "African American libraries"

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Daniel, Dominique. "Gender, Race, and Age of Librarians and Users Have an Impact on the Perceived Approachability of Librarians." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8, no. 3 (2013): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8jp5h.

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Objective – To assess how the age, gender, and race characteristics of library users affect their perceptions of the approachability of reference librarians with similar or different demographic characteristics. Design – Image rating survey. Setting – Large, three-campus university system in the United States. Subjects – There were 449 students, staff, and faculty of different ages, gender, and race. Methods – In an online survey respondents were presented with images of hypothetical librarians and asked to evaluate their approachability, using a scale from 1 to 10. The images showed librarians with neutral emotional expressions against a standardized, neutral background. The librarians’ age, gender, and race were systematically varied. Only White, African American, and Asian American librarians were shown. Afterwards respondents were asked to identify their own age, gender, race, and status. Main Results – Respondents perceived female librarians as more approachable than male librarians, maybe due to expectations caused by the female librarian stereotype. They found librarians of their own age group more approachable. African American respondents scored African American librarians as more approachable, whereas Whites expressed no significant variation when rating the approachability of librarians of different races. Thus, African Americans demonstrated strong in-group bias but Whites manifested colour blindness – possibly a strategy to avoid the appearance of racial bias. Asian Americans rated African American librarians lower than White librarians. Conclusion – This study demonstrates that visible demographic characteristics matter in people’s first impressions of librarians. Findings confirm that diversity initiatives are needed in academic libraries to ensure that all users feel welcome and are encouraged to approach librarians. Regarding gender, programs that deflate the female librarian stereotype may help improve the approachability image of male librarians. Academic libraries should staff the reference desk with individuals covering a wide range of ages, including college-aged interns, whom traditional age students find most approachable. Libraries should also build a racially diverse staff to meet the needs of a racially diverse user population. Since first impressions have lasting effects on the development of social relationships, structural diversity should be a priority for libraries’ diversity programs.
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Sharon K. Epps. "African American Women Leaders in Academic Research Libraries." portal: Libraries and the Academy 8, no. 3 (2008): 255–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pla.0.0001.

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Ibraheem, Abiodun I., and Christopher Devine. "A Survey of the Experiences of African Librarians in American Academic Libraries." College & Research Libraries 74, no. 3 (2013): 288–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl-292.

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A national research study was undertaken to identify and clarify issues related to the employment in academic settings of African librarians who have relocated to the United States. It examined, by means of a survey, employment issues concerned with education, credentialing, language skills and cultural bias from the perspective of those librarians and concluded with a recommendation regarding the manner in which their skills might be utilized for the benefit of their homelands.
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Gubert, Betty Kaplan. "Research Resources for the Study of African-American and Jewish Relations." Judaica Librarianship 8, no. 1 (1994): 162–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.14263/2330-2976.1262.

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Several libraries in New York City have exceptionally rich resources for the study of relations between African Americans and Jewish Americans. The holdings of and access to these collections are discussed; some sources in other parts of the U.S. are mentioned as well. The most important collection is in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. Besides books, there is a vast Clipping File, the unique Kaiser Index, manuscript collections, and some audio and visual materials. The Jewish Division of The New York Public Library has unparalleled holdings of Jewish newspapers from around the world, from which relevant articles can be derived. The libraries of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the VIVO Institute ,are also both fine sources. Their book holdings are up-to-date, and YIVO's clipping file is also, including such items as publicity releases from Mayors Koch and Dinkins. YIVO's archives have such important historical holdings as the American Jewish Committee Records (1930s to the 1970s), and some NAACP materials from the thirties and forties. Children's books on this top ic and ways of acquiring information are noted. A list of the major libraries, with addresses, telephone numbers, and hours is in an appendix.
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Le, Binh P. "Academic Library Leadership." International Journal of Librarianship 6, no. 1 (2021): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2021.vol6.1.184.

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Nearly 80% of American librarians are women. Similarly, the majority of American librarians are White; people of color – e.g., African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans – represent a small percentage of the U.S. library work-force. Throughout history, library leadership positions, regardless of the type of library (e.g., academic, public, or special), have been held by White males. This library leadership landscape was significantly altered following the enactment of a number of progressive laws and affirmative action programs, starting with the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The problem, however, is that not every underrepresented group benefits from these laws and programs (hereafter policies). In fact, based on the present study, it appears that these policies have done little to help increase the number of people of color who are library directors in some of America’s largest and most prestigious academic libraries.
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Ball, Patricia. "African American Male Library Administrators in Public and Academic Libraries." College & Research Libraries 56, no. 6 (1995): 531–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl_56_06_531.

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Fleming, John E. "The Impact of Social Movements on the Development of African American Museums." Public Historian 40, no. 3 (2018): 44–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.3.44.

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The effort to preserve African American history is firmly grounded in the struggle for freedom and equality. Black people understood the relationship between heritage and the freedom struggle. Such struggles in the pre and post Civil War eras spurred the preservation of African and African American culture first in libraries and archives and later museums. The civil rights, Black Power, Black Arts and Black Studies movements helped advance social and political change, which in turn spurred the development of Black museums as formal institutions for preserving African American culture.
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Martinez, Katharine. "The Art Libraries and Research Resources of the Smithsonian Institution." Art Libraries Journal 13, no. 1 (1988): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200005484.

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The Smithsonian Institution, a public organisation established in 1846 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”, includes ten museums and several research bureaux. Most but not all of the associated libraries are linked through the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; they include several art libraries which contribute significantly to the overall provision of art library service to the American people but do not of themselves constitute a “national art library”. Most of the Smithsonian’s libraries enter their records in a database (SIBIS) which is accessible online via OCLC. Co-ordinated collection development has been pursued since 1984. In two areas in particular, American and African art, Smithsonian libraries aim to provide a national service.
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Powell, Chaitra, Holly Smith, Shanee' Murrain, and Skyla Hearn. "This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker." KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 2 (November 29, 2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/kula.25.

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Archivists who work on African American collections are increasingly more aware that traditional sites of African American agency and autonomy are becoming more unstable. The need to capture the perspectives and histories of these institutions is urgent. The challenges become more acute when communities recognize the need to preserve their legacies but do not have the resources or support to make it happen. African American material culture and history remains at risk of co-optation from large institutions and individuals seeking to monetize and profit from collecting Black collections. Endemic in that process is the risk of these institutions controlling the narrative and inadvertently or deliberately erasing the narratives of these diverse communities from that community’s perspective. Cultural memory workers focused on African American collections face numerous challenges: the risk of losing the materials or communities themselves; partnering with organizations and administrations with differing, and perhaps conflicting agendas; working on projects with limited or term funding; and the emotional labor of being a person of color in a predominantly white field trying to support communities that can often reflect their own experiences. How can libraries, museums, and archives bring these communities into the world of archives and empower them to protect and share their stories? How can archivists, particularly those of color, find support within their institutions and the archival profession, to accomplish this work of preserving African American cultural heritage? How can archives support genuinely collaborative projects with diverse Black communities without co-opting their stories and collections?The authors will address these questions in this article, discussing their experiences working with a variety of institutions—predominantly white universities, Black colleges, churches, neighborhoods and families. The authors also include their reflections from their National Conference of African American Librarians panel presentation in August 2017 on these related topics.
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Helton, Laura E. "On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 134, no. 1 (2019): 99–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.1.99.

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Entering Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, one still passes through the “catalog room,” an antechamber filled with rows of card drawers. Inaugurated in 1930 by the librarian Dorothy Porter, this catalog of the “Negro Collection” served for much of the twentieth century as one of the only portals to African American print culture. This article reconstructs the creation of that catalog in order to chart the relation between infrastructure and racial imaginaries of reading. Porter contravened the routine misfiling of blackness in prevailing information systems by rewriting Dewey decimals, creating new taxonomies for black print, and fielding research inquiries from across the African diaspora. She built public access to books “by and about the Negro” at a moment when most black readers were barred from libraries. In so doing, she fueled a broader sense of what a black archive—or what Porter called a “literary museum”—might afford.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American libraries"

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Chancellor, Renate L. "E.J. Josey a historical look at a civil rights activist and transformative leader in the modern library profession /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1666155981&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lathan, Rhea Estelle. "Writing a wrong : a case of African American adult literacy action on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1957-1962 /." 2006. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.

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Von, Beck M. K. E. L. B. (Margarethe Kunhild Ehrengard Luise Bodild). "The role of the South African public library in support of adult black illiterates in urban areas." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17831.

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This study investigates the history of the phenomenon illiteracy and the response of the public library in selected countries for about one hundred and fifty years with particular focus on the Republic of south Africa. The influence that this manifestation has on the individual Black urban adult, the society in which the illiterate adult lives and the economy of the country are sharply focused. The principal argument is that public libraries have historically adapted their services to meet new social challenges, and in South Africa illiteracy among Black urban adults constitutes such a challenge. As an extension of its traditional educational function, the public library is beginning to meet this challenge in the role of literacy support. The reasons for the high illiteracy rate among the Black adult urban population are discussed in their historical context. As far as the methodology is concerned, extensive literature studies were undertaken on international as well as local data bases. Correspondence was entered into with overseas research institutes, academics and consultants. Interviews were conducted to ascertain the most recent developments relating to the literacy problem in a well-defined geographical region. Conclusions are made to the effect that there is a historical imperative for the South African public library system to fully discharge its responsibility to Black South Africans. In order to achieve this the public library in South Africa should re-examine, re-interpret and extend its educational function to include the challenge of the role of literacy support. It is further reconunended that the Provincial Library services in south Africa should coordinate disparate efforts and activities in this regard. The marketing of the public library has become more important in the prevailing economic climate. If the public library wishes to remain an indispensable social institution in the lives of the citizens of South Africa and specifically if it takes the role of literacy support seriously, it will of necessity have to market its services. Other organizational implications for public libraries of this new challenge of literacy support are spelled out clearly and areas requiring further research are indicated.
Information Studies
D. Litt. et Phil.
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Malone, Cheryl Knott. "Accommodating access "colored" Carnegie libraries, 1905-1925 /." 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=RNfgAAAAMAAJ.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1996.
Includes vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-290).
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Cook, Karen Joyce. "Freedom libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project : a history /." 2008. http://www.slis.ua.edu/kcook3/index.html.

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Nelson, Marilyn. "Seven library women whose humane presence enlightened society in the Harlem Renaissance iconoclastic ethos." 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=k7LgAAAAMAAJ.

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Books on the topic "African American libraries"

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The 21st-century Black librarian in America: Issues and challenges. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012.

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Shayne, Mette. African newspapers currently received by American libraries. Northwestern University Library, 1996.

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Cason, Maidel K. African newspapers currently received by American libraries. Northwestern University, Herskovits Library, 1991.

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Library service to African Americans in Kentucky, from the Reconstruction era to the 1960s. McFarland & Co., 2002.

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National, Conference of African American Librarians (3rd 1997 Winston-Salem N. C. ). Culture keepers III: Making global connections : conference proceedings, BCALA 3rd National Conference of African American Librarians, Winston-Salem, NC, July 31-August 3, 1997. Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 1999.

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National Conference of African American Librarians (1st 1992 Columbus, Ohio). Culture keepers: Enlightening and empowering our communities : proceedings of the First National Conference of African American Librarians, September 4-6, 1992, Columbus, Ohio. Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 1993.

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National Conference of African American Librarians (2nd 1994 Milwaukee, Wis.). Culture keepers II: Unity through diversity : proceedings of the second National Conference of African American Librarians, August 5-7, 1994, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 1995.

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Urbana Free Library. Urban School Improvement Project. Using cooperative efforts between the African American church and local public libraries to expand the use of library services by African Americans: Final report, September 11, 1992. Urban School Improvement Project, Urbana Free Library, 1992.

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Molyneux, Robert J. ACRL/historically black colleges & universities library statistics 1988-89: A compilation of statistics from sixty-eight historically black college and university libraries. Association of College and Research Libraries, 1991.

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Dulcina DeBerry: Door opener. M.L. Torrence, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "African American libraries"

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"Internet Access and Training for African-American Churches: Reducing Disparities in Health Information Access." In Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203725719-13.

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Yon, Angela, and Eric Willey. "Learning from each other: Reciprocity in description between Wikipedians and librarians." In Wikipedia and Academic Libraries. Michigan Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch19.en.

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Librarians, archivists, and museum professionals are increasingly realizing the value of using and contributing information to Wikipedia through projects such as edit-a-thons and the 1Lib1Ref project. As the amount of knowledge in Wikipedia and Wikidata grows, the benefits to libraries in partnering with Wikimedia projects to enhance their own bibliographic records and catalog search results also increase. Conversely, librarians have created an immense number of bibliographic and authority records that Wikipedia and Wikidata editors can use both as resources in and of themselves and as examples of various approaches to metadata and knowledge creation. Despite some challenges there are numerous benefits for working to integrate library data with Wikipedia more closely. This chapter will serve to highlight differences between Wikipedia resources and library catalog records, and how librarians and Wikipedians can learn from each other to improve description and discoverability in both Wikipedia and library catalogs for their respective users. It will also illustrate differences between these two systems in order to reduce confusion and errors when data are merged uncritically. The discussion draws on experience gained from a previous Illinois State University Research Grant-funded project that used the Wikipedia List of African-American writers to enhance library catalog records.
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Kowalsky, Michelle. "Envisioning Change and Extending Library Reach for Impact in Underserved School Communities." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9108-5.ch011.

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This project aimed to improve and promote the school libraries in a K-12 district which serves primarily African American and Latino students. Surveys about the libraries were distributed to each teacher, student, and parents. Students independently and overwhelmingly reported that they enjoyed the author visits, the new books, and the library research projects which utilized them. Reactions to this district-wide library initiative contributed to the students' positive reviews of these aspects of their school libraries in roughly equal parts; in other words, students don't only appreciate the ability to surf the internet. Students in this underserved population mentioned that their class research projects turned out better, that they were able to find more information in books and online via new library computers, and that they found exciting new materials to read. Students, teachers, and parents consistently reported that they felt more interested and more successful in library research after their school library was updated and its resources were promoted.
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"August Wilson." In Writing Appalachia, edited by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0067.

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Internationally acclaimed playwright August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel on “The Hill” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Son of a German baker and an African American domestic worker, Wilson learned to read at the age of four. After his mother’s divorce and remarriage, his stepfather moved the family to a mostly white suburb where they were subjected to hate crimes. Wilson dropped out of school in tenth grade after being falsely accused of plagiarism, choosing instead to spend each day educating himself in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie-funded public libraries. Unable to find work, he joined the army in 1963 and successfully sought a discharge one year later....
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"African‐Americans and U.S. Libraries: History." In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. CRC Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/e-elis3-120044938.

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"Carnegie Public Libraries for African Americans." In Not Free, Not for All. University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1hd1917.6.

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Moore, Sean D. "“See Benezet’s Account of Africa Throughout”." In Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836377.003.0005.

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Olaudah Equiano is arguably the founder of the slave narrative, in his case one in which he explores his capture in Africa as a boy, his different masters, his conversion to evangelical Protestantism, his entrepreneurship, and his service in the navy—all requisites to being considered fully “British” at the time. This chapter explores his footnote in his Interesting Narrative acknowledging how Philadelphia Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet’s anthropology of West Africa informed his story, and how Benezet—who had never been to Africa—relied on the slavery-funded Library Company of Philadelphia, for books of travels to Africa for that anthropology. In doing so, it provides archival evidence of how Philadelphians exchanged their grain and other products for slaves and Caribbean slave plantation products. It also provides the first ever analysis of the library’s 1794–1812 circulation receipt book, showing the circulation of all the genres encapsulated in both men’s accounts.
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Moore, Sean D. "“Whatever Is, Is Right”." In Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836377.003.0002.

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Beginning with an analysis of a painting of the slaveholding founder of the Redwood Library of Newport, Rhode Island, that shows him holding a copy of Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man, this chapter documents the reading of Alexander Pope’s works in colonial America in relation to the Atlantic slavery economy. In doing so, it provides a theory that portraiture featuring books should count as evidence of the reception of them. It shows how slavery philanthropy fueled the Rhode Island book trade and endowed its libraries, and how patriot thought and activity emerged from these libraries. In examining the fragmentary remaining circulation receipt books of the Redwood, it shows patterns of reading that suggest that members of the library were more concerned about their own political “slavery” to Britain than with the condition of the Africans they were enslaving. It also investigates Rhode Island abolitionism in figures like Samuel Hopkins.
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Jiménez García, Marilisa. "From the Ground Up." In Side by Side. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832474.003.0003.

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This chapter centers on the education and role of “ethnic” librarians during the founding and professionalization of children’s literature and librarianship at the New York Public Library, tracing a legacy back to Afro-Boricua public pedagogies in Puerto Rico. This chapter also analyzes the centrality of Blackness and activism project of Latinx children’s literature as a US tradition grounded in the work of librarians of color, interweaving the stories of Pura Belpré and Arturo Schomburg, both key figures in the Harlem Renaissance and history of African American and AfroLatinx literature.
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Moore, Sean D. "They Were Prodigals and Enslavers." In Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836377.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the founding of the New York Society Library as part of the trend of merchants made wealthy by slavery and related commerce establishing philanthropic and civil society institutions in the mid- and late eighteenth century. By mapping the reading network around Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in this library, it establishes that almost all of its readers from 1789–90 supported Defoe’s pro-slavery views as articulated by Crusoe’s choice to go to sea to engage in the Africa trade, and how most American editions of the novel advocated young men doing the same. The library’s City Readers database also makes it easy to inventory the other books that readers of Crusoe were reading in order to gauge the level of pro-slavery versus Manumission Society sentiment. In doing so, it provides a portrait of New York society as one in which whites of every background benefited from the slave trade.
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Conference papers on the topic "African American libraries"

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Nieuwenhuysen, Paul. "Information Literacy Didactics for Higher Education and Research: Some Lessons from an International Workshop." In InSITE 2016: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Lithuania. Informing Science Institute, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3497.

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This contribution identifies challenges in information literacy didactics in contemporary higher education all over the world: • Heterogeneity among organizations for higher education hinders co-operation. • Information literacy is competing with media literacy. • Leadership and responsibility are needed in information literacy education. • Developing information literacy training materials requires an adequate budget. • Expertise in didactics is also needed for teaching in the area of information literacy. • Marketing should support information literacy didactics. • Information literacy should be integrated in the curriculum of all students. • Libraries should not neglect contemporary information systems. • Study materials should be adapted to the upcoming mobile information technology tools. • Regional training and workshops on information literacy didactics would be welcome. • Data management skills become important besides information literacy. These challenges should be faced constructively and therefore we formulate for each challenge also a recommendation towards stakeholders. This paper is based mainly on recent project activities of organizations of higher education in Flanders, Belgium, aimed at 1. getting a view on the growing expertise in didactics to upgrade the level of information literacy in their region, and paving the way towards more efficient cooperation on information literacy didactics with partner universities, mainly in developing countries, 2. sharing their experience with universities in developing countries, in Asia, Africa and America, in the form of a fruitful international workshop and follow-up activities.
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