African American Librarians In The Far West

Author : Binnie Tate Wilkin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810851563

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African American Librarians in the Far West by Binnie Tate Wilkin Pdf

Unstorically, African American librarians have faced the same discrimination as other African American professionals: lack of respect; placement only in African American communities; failure to receive promotions to administrative positions, especially those requiring supervision of Caucasian counterparts; and failure to recognize contributions to the organization and the profession. African American Librarians in the Far West includes biographies of twenty-two librarians who practiced in the western United States and Hawaii and contributed to the advancement of African Americans in the profession, the library, the general community, and the field of library and information science.

Author : Mary Ellen Quinn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810875456

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Historical Dictionary of Librarianship by Mary Ellen Quinn Pdf

Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-19th century, the history of libraries is much older, and people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for many thousands of years. This book traces librarianship from its origins in ancient times through its development in response to the need to control the flood of information in the modern world to the profound transformations brought about by the new technologies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Historical Dictionary of Librarianship focuses on librarianship as a modern, organized profession, emphasizing the period beginning in the mid-19th century. Author Mary Ellen Quinn relates the history of this profession through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, libraries around the world, and notable organizations and associations. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about librarianship.

Author : Shauntee Burns-Simpson,Nichelle M. Hayes,Ana Ndumu,Shaundra Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538152683

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The Black Librarian in America by Shauntee Burns-Simpson,Nichelle M. Hayes,Ana Ndumu,Shaundra Walker Pdf

The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black Librarian in America volumes. While previous editions we organized around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic sections”: A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian History Celebrating Collective and Individual Identity Black Librarians across Settings Moving Forward: Activism, Anti-Racism, and Allyship” Issues pertaining to Black librarians’ intersectional identities, capacities, and contributions take center stage. The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is not only the first edition to be edited entirely by Black women, but it is officially produced by BCALA members in commemoration of the organization’s 50th anniversary. Dr. Carla Hayden (14th Librarian of Congress) and Julius Jefferson, Jr. (president of the American Library Association for the 2020-2021 term) contribute moving foreword and afterword segments.

Author : Andrew P. Jackson,Julius Jefferson,Akilah S. Nosakhere
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810882461

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The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America by Andrew P. Jackson,Julius Jefferson,Akilah S. Nosakhere Pdf

The 1970 and 1994 editions of The Black Librarian in America by E.J. Josey singled out racism as an important issue to be addressed within the library profession. Although much has changed since then, this latest collection of 48 essays by Black librarians and library supporters again identifies racism as one of many challenges of the new century. Essays are written by library educators, library graduate students, retired librarians, public library trustees, veteran librarians, and new librarians fresh out of school with great ideas and wholesome energies. They cover such topics as poorly equipped school libraries and the need to preserve the school library, a call to action to all librarians to make the shift to new and innovative models of public education, the advancement in information technology and library operations, special libraries, recruitment and the Indiana State Library program, racism in the history of library and information science, and challenges that have plagued librarianship for decades. This collection of poignant essays covers a multiplicity of concerns for the 21st-century Black librarian and embodies compassion and respect for the provision of information, an act that defines librarianship. The essays are personable, inspiring, and thought provoking for all library professionals, regardless of race, class, or gender.

Author : Binnie Tate Wilkin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810869608

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African and African American Images in Newbery Award Winning Titles by Binnie Tate Wilkin Pdf

Since 1922, the Newbery Medal of Honor has been awarded to distinguished works of literature for children. Although African and African American characters appeared in children's books well before the establishment of the Newbery award, such depictions were limited, with characters often only appearing as slaves or servants. However, over the last several decades, there has been much progress, and Black characters have played a much more integral role in many highly regarded novels. In African and African American Images in Newbery Award Winning Titles, Binnie Tate Wilkin provides a historical and contextual examination of books with such depictions that have been acknowledged by the nation's most prestigious award for children's literature. Wilkin explores the depictions of African and African American characters in these novels and illuminates the progressive quality of such representations. Wilkin looks closely at such elements as aesthetic descriptions, subservient characterizations, the relationships between characters, and specific language usage to investigate how these images have progressed toward increasingly positive depictions. She also notes, when applicable, the significance of the lack of any African or African American images. This book is an essential resource for those interested in African American studies, children's literature, and the relationship between the two.

Author : Binnie Tate Wilkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442231788

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A Life in Storytelling by Binnie Tate Wilkin Pdf

A Life in Storytelling contains the reflections and lessons from one of the most noted storytellers of our times. Fifty years of storytelling has provided Binnie Tate Wilkin with the experiences and insights to form the basis of a text for the storyteller, both for the professional librarian, teacher or parent wanting to provide children with substance through story. The sections of the book are designed to provide background material for the art and craft of storytelling, the methods and uses of storytelling, sources and examples of stories, and a broad selection of over 100 stories briefly annotated. Included are sections that explain how to derive or adapt stories from current events, history, or imaginative writings and a detailed treatment in the use of dance in storytelling, a technique that, if not invented by Wilkin, has become a trademark of her approach. The treatment is always informal and personal and is interleaved with anecdotes drawn from the author’s more than 50 years of storytelling.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1752 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89092323963

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968466

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Dallas Hanbury
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498586290

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The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898–1963 by Dallas Hanbury Pdf

Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that public libraries played an integral role in Southern cities’ economic and cultural boosterism efforts during the New South and Progressive Eras. First, Southern public libraries helped institutionalize segregation during the early twentieth century by refusing to serve African Americans, or only to a limited degree. Yet, the Progressive Era’s emphasis on self-improvement and moral uplift influenced Southern public libraries to the extent that not all embraced total segregation. It even caused Southern public libraries to remain open to the idea of slowly expanding library service to African Americans. Later, libraries’ social mission and imperfect commitment to segregation made them prime targets for breaking down the barriers of segregation in the post- World War II era. In this study, Dallas Hanbury concludes that dealing with the complicated and unexpected outcomes of having practiced segregation constituted a difficult and lengthy process for Southern public libraries.

Author : Lawrence B. de Graaf,Kevin Mulroy,Quintard Taylor
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805313

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Seeking El Dorado by Lawrence B. de Graaf,Kevin Mulroy,Quintard Taylor Pdf

From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.

Author : Gordon Morris Bakken,Alexandra Kindell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412905503

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Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West by Gordon Morris Bakken,Alexandra Kindell Pdf

Through sweeping entries, focused biographies, community histories, economic enterprise analysis, and demographic studies, this Encyclopedia presents the tapestry of the West and its population during various periods of migration. Examines the settling of the West and includes coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development.

Author : Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812297980

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I've Been Here All the While by Alaina E. Roberts Pdf

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Author : George H. Junne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065057

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Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico by George H. Junne Pdf

Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.

Author : Linda Tarrant-Reid
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683354291

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Discovering Black America by Linda Tarrant-Reid Pdf

From the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource and “an epic work” (School Library Journal). Discovering Black America is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, Discovering Black America provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history. “Engaging . . . brings to light many intriguing and tragically underreported stories.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Reproductions of historical documents, photographs, and artwork provide a sense of immediacy to this immersive tapestry, which reaches well beyond the milestones typically outlined in history books.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Absolutely gorgeous in design, with a harmonious marriage of text and colorful archival images, this is the kind of book that invites browsing, and its extensive reach will make this a go-to title for report writers.” —School Library Journal “Begins with the first African explorers and seamen arriving in the New World in the fifteenth century, and . . . ends with the presidential election of Barack Obama . . . meticulous footnotes and a bibliography of recommended books...An excellent title for classroom support.” —Booklist “Thoroughly researched and documented...an outstanding resource for students. The primary source documents, photographs, and archival maps that complement this compelling account will engage readers.” —Library Media Connection (highly recommended) An NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People

Author : Parliamentary Library of South Australia,South Australia. Parliamentary Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0037127101

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Catalogue of the Parliamentary Library of South Australia by Parliamentary Library of South Australia,South Australia. Parliamentary Library Pdf

"Brings forward the previous catalogue to the end of July, 1871."--Pref.