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Navigating Library Collections, Black Culture, and Current Events

Foster, Makiba J.

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Title
Navigating Library Collections, Black Culture, and Current Events
Author(s)
Foster, Makiba J.
Issue Date
2018
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries
  • Information science
  • Library and information science
  • Diversity
  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • Library collections
  • Current events
Abstract
The work of preserving content is at the heart of what libraries and archives do best. Beyond preserving collections, historical literacy as a companion concept to the LIS standard of information literacy can give collections a second life, thereby sparking public interests, increasing contemporary relevance, and advancing a critical understanding of events in our nation’s history. Looking at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s collection of The Negro Motorist Green Book in relation to the contemporary social justice activism, this paper will discuss ways in which the archival collection was used to educate visitors regarding the historical roots of recent discourse around the perils of traveling while Black.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 67 (1). Summer 2018
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101932
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0022
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Copyright 2018 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 67 (1) Summer 2018: Race and Ethnicity in Library and Information Science: An Update PRIMARY
Library Trends 67 (1) Summer 2018: Race and Ethnicity in Library and Information Science: An Update. Edited by Nicole A. Cooke