Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approach.

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Main Author: Johnson-Cooper, Glendora
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1994
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contents Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approach. Johnson-Cooper, Glendora Academic Libraries Afrocentrism Black Businesses Black Literature Bookstores Cultural Differences Higher Education Library Collection Development Library Collections Library Material Selection Periodicals Problems Publishing Industry Racial Factors Discussion of developing racially diverse collections in academic libraries focuses on an Afrocentric approach. Topics addressed include valuing diversity; Afrocentricity as a framework for diversity; barriers to building Afrocentric collections; and resources for building Afrocentric collections, including black-owned publishers, African American scholarly journals and popular periodicals, and bookstores. (Contains 24 references.) (LRW)
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spellingShingle Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approach.
Johnson-Cooper, Glendora
Academic Libraries
Afrocentrism
Black Businesses
Black Literature
Bookstores
Cultural Differences
Higher Education
Library Collection Development
Library Collections
Library Material Selection
Periodicals
Problems
Publishing Industry
Racial Factors
Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approach. Johnson-Cooper, Glendora Academic Libraries Afrocentrism Black Businesses Black Literature Bookstores Cultural Differences Higher Education Library Collection Development Library Collections Library Material Selection Periodicals Problems Publishing Industry Racial Factors Discussion of developing racially diverse collections in academic libraries focuses on an Afrocentric approach. Topics addressed include valuing diversity; Afrocentricity as a framework for diversity; barriers to building Afrocentric collections; and resources for building Afrocentric collections, including black-owned publishers, African American scholarly journals and popular periodicals, and bookstores. (Contains 24 references.) (LRW)
title Building Racially Diverse Collections: An Afrocentric Approach.
topic Academic Libraries
Afrocentrism
Black Businesses
Black Literature
Bookstores
Cultural Differences
Higher Education
Library Collection Development
Library Collections
Library Material Selection
Periodicals
Problems
Publishing Industry
Racial Factors
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ489712