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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1994
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ489712 |
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- 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)