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Andrea Tosti – SANE Journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education, 2024
Despite comics' popularity and cultural significance in Italy, its integration into Italian libraries has been slow, problematic, and uneven. This is reflected in the scarcity of academic research on the topic, which demands further in-depth exploration. In the context of Italian libraries, characterized by chronic underfunding and staffing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartoons, Libraries, Books
Ghalib Khan; Rubina Bhatti; Rahim Jan; Amjid Khan – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Acquisition management is the kind of strategy that university libraries adopt to assist the information needs of the client population. This study attempted to understand the acquisition management in the university libraries in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The study adopted a survey method and included all those well-established…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Libraries, Library Services, Library Personnel
Jahnke, Lori M.; Tanaka, Kyle; Palazzolo, Christopher A. – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Beginning with a discussion of how collections diversity has been conceptualized and assessed within the literature, we then analyze four areas in which professional practices and modes of thinking create barriers to collecting materials from historically marginalized voices. Specifically, we discuss how metadata practices can obscure these…
Descriptors: Library Policy, Library Materials, Library Services, Academic Libraries
Nan Trowell Brown – Knowledge Quest, 2023
Adults at school board meetings screaming at elected members about "groomer" and "pedophile" school librarians' books, programs, and displays. Politicians who repeat these claims and pledge to remove pornography from local schools. Public threats of physical harm or loss of livelihood against school librarians. The result of…
Descriptors: Censorship, School Libraries, Library Materials, Librarians
Marie Masferrer – Knowledge Quest, 2023
What can school librarians do about library and book censorship? First, ask questions. Find out what your principal and your district have put into policy and what your principal's expectations are for your school library. Then, communicate with your classroom teachers. For ourselves, school librarians should work with colleagues, especially other…
Descriptors: Censorship, School Libraries, Books, Reading Material Selection
Holly Kurtz; Sterling Lloyd; Alex Harwin; Beilei Guo; Ashlee Daniels – Editorial Projects in Education, 2023
Parents and guardians are uniquely positioned to help their children succeed in school. When it comes to the educational interests and needs of an individual child, it is difficult to think of anyone who is a stronger advocate than a parent. But what happens when a parent's views of that individual child's interests and needs conflict with the…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, School Libraries, Books, Censorship
Antelman, Kristin – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Applying a content warning to metadata and archival descriptions is a practice that libraries increasingly embrace, even though the American Library Association considers content labeling to be censorship under the Library Bill of Rights. The language used in a content warning, such as "offensive" or "harmful," carries…
Descriptors: Censorship, Libraries, Librarians, Freedom of Speech
Alicia Abdul – Knowledge Quest, 2022
In this article, the author explores why a school librarian's value should be wrapped up in books. First, reading is a foundational skill, and memories are built around who people are before and who they are after reading a book. School librarians get to be a part of that transformation. Second, books still make up the heart of a physical library,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Library Services, Reading Material Selection
Lisa Romero – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Diversity is an important issue in higher education communication and media programs. This study shows how librarians can use audit data to assess and strive for diversity in their library's print monographic collections. This article explores aspects of diversity within two fields of study, communication and media, and discusses the results of a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Diversity, Library Materials, Library Services
Ashley Hope Pérez – Knowledge Quest, 2022
YA author Pérez offers encouragement and insight into book challenges today, which are about much more than just a book. Offering tips for how to prepare for challenges and amplify student voices, the reader will also find ideas to help marginalized learners still find their way to targeted books.
Descriptors: Books, Censorship, School Libraries, Intellectual Freedom
Joshua Spilka – Knowledge Quest, 2022
Parents and politicians feel it is their duty to assert control over the information within school libraries. According to Joshua Spilka, a high school junior, book banning has affected no one more than students and school librarians. Students find that the people who are supposed to advocate for them, parents and guardians, are often working…
Descriptors: Books, School Libraries, Censorship, Intellectual Freedom
O'Brien, Maria G. – American Educator, 2023
Give a child a book and watch them blossom in more ways than you could possibly imagine! Nothing can replace the feel of a book and the turning of pages in anticipation of a story unfolding picture by picture, chapter by chapter. Books open doors to learning and to the world around us. Where do we go to find these awesome books? The library, of…
Descriptors: Libraries, Books, Young Children, Reading Material Selection
Amy Brownlee – Knowledge Quest, 2024
Relationships are all about connection. Teacher librarians are more effective at positively impacting learners when they have established relationships with them. There are a myriad of ways to build these bonds, and even small efforts can yield great results. In this article, the author presents the power of relationships when building bonds with…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Librarians, Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Erin DeWitt; Rodriguez, Allyson; Smith, Susan – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2019
That university students encounter issues and experience frustration when using ebooks is well documented, but more research into the specific issues they encounter is needed. This study focused on how successfully undergraduate and graduate students use ebooks and whether there are measurable differences between the two groups. Researchers…
Descriptors: Interaction, Books, Electronic Publishing, Undergraduate Students
Zhang, Mei – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In this dissertation I studied how academic librarians select e-book products, emphasizing the decision-making processes they used to make purchasing decisions. My dissertation contains two parts: (1) a meta analysis of selection models from both library and consumer research literature, and (2) interviews with e-book selection librarians. In the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Electronic Publishing, Books