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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Inequalities In Publishing, Charlotte Roh
Exploring Civil Rights Through Mississippi Collections, Jennifer Brannock, Greg Johnson
Exploring Civil Rights Through Mississippi Collections, Jennifer Brannock, Greg Johnson
Urban Library Journal
Bibliographic instruction is an important tool to teach students about services and collections offered in a library. At the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi, curators often use instruction sessions to teach students about the civil rights history of the state. Through correspondence, photographs, government documents, and music, students become aware of the activities of civil rights activists and the segregationists they fought against. This paper explores the various civil rights primary sources and subjects covered in instruction sessions at the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi.
Multiracial Resources In A Monoracially-Organized Library World, Helen Look
Multiracial Resources In A Monoracially-Organized Library World, Helen Look
Urban Library Journal
Mainstream library practices in organizing information generally reflects social norms in which white, as a racial group, is privileged and dominant and others are marginalized and frequently excluded. Multiracial/multi-ethnic people are growing in numbers and are increasingly unwilling to accept exclusion and invisibility. In a society that prefers the binary -- black/white, male/female, conservative/liberal -- fighting for anything else is a challenge. Researchers pursuing information about those standing outside of any racial binary typically struggle with poor classification in library catalogs and bibliographic databases, variable language with wildly different meanings depending on context, and offensive archaisms that may be their …
Notes From The Editor, Junior R. Tidal
Notes From The Editor, Junior Tidal
Notes From The Editor, Junior Tidal
Urban Library Journal
This an lead-in to the new issue of Urban Library Journal. This article includes major changes to ULJ, its migration to BePress, and it's new logo. It also introduces the two articles of the issue.
24/7 Library Hours At An Urban Commuter College, Maureen Richards
24/7 Library Hours At An Urban Commuter College, Maureen Richards
Urban Library Journal
Historically, academic libraries have not provided their users with any form of 24-hour access. The evidence today is that many do. This article discusses the results of a survey of students using the library at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which in the Spring 2014 began offering 24/7 library access during the final exam period. The objective was to gather demographic information about the users and get a better understanding of the reason for their visit. The data collected helps explain what might be driving the trend to extend hours, particularly as many library resources are available 24/7 electronically …
Social Practice Artists In The Archive: Collaborative Strategies For Documentation, Maggie Schreiner, Claro De Los Reyes
Social Practice Artists In The Archive: Collaborative Strategies For Documentation, Maggie Schreiner, Claro De Los Reyes
Urban Library Journal
Over a seven month period in 2015, My Baryo My Borough, a community-based arts and oral history project, partnered with Queens Memory, the Queens Library’s local history project, to collaboratively document the Filipino and Filipino-American communities in Queens, NY. My Baryo, My Borough and Queens Memory worked with the Filipino-American community to collect oral history recordings and digitize photographs from the local Filipino-American experience. Central to our success was a shared understanding that our partnership was building mutual legitimacy and trust, creating local capacity and shared ownership, and centering leadership for the project within the Filipino-American community in Queens. More …
Inclusivity And Indie Authors: The Case For Community-Based Publishing, Zetta Elliot
Inclusivity And Indie Authors: The Case For Community-Based Publishing, Zetta Elliot
Urban Library Journal
African Americans remain marginalized within the children’s publishing industry, despite the 2014 increase in books about Africans/African Americans. This sudden spike was not paired with a comparable increase in the number of books by Blacks, however, suggesting that power remains where it has always been: in the hands of whites. The homogeneity of the publishing workforce matches the homogeneity of published authors and their books. The marginalization of writers of color is the result of very deliberate decisions made by gatekeepers within the children’s literature community—editors, agents, librarians, and reviewers. These decisions place insurmountable barriers in the path of far …
Differentiated Instruction In Information Literacy Courses In Urban Universities: How Flipping The Classroom Can Transform A Course And Help Reach All Students, Alex Berrio Matamoros
Differentiated Instruction In Information Literacy Courses In Urban Universities: How Flipping The Classroom Can Transform A Course And Help Reach All Students, Alex Berrio Matamoros
Urban Library Journal
Urban universities enroll highly diverse student bodies by every measure of “diversity.” In addition to different learning styles students may innately possess, many aspects of diversity impact the way they learn. Despite having diverse students, information literacy instructors in urban universities may approach teaching by attempting to reach the “average student,” even when there is little to no homogeneity among students. A differentiated instruction approach invites instructors to design various teaching and assessment devices in an attempt to appeal to how students learn differently. In order for differentiated instruction in information literacy to work, most classroom time should be dedicated …