Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I2.32589
S. A. Evans
This research asks the question: How does a public library contribute to the literate lives of a diverse community of adolescents? To explore this question, this article presents portraits of three young women, for whom a public library provided transformative opportunities. These portraits come from a larger ethnographic case study that examined a public library’s role in sparking and sustaining adolescent learning. Over 18 months, the author observed library activities involving youth, interviewed library staff and adolescent patrons, and led teen volunteers in a participatory research project. Data were analyzed in a constant comparative method within a sociocultural-historical framework. Through attention to the girls’ activities within the public library, two contributing elements— 1) a democratic space created by library practices, and 2), the diversity in discourse facilitated by the teen librarian—expanded the participants’ literacy practices and perspectives on reading. This article informs our understanding of diversity in adolescent literacy and highlights the practices that libraries and communities can use to foster the next generation of readers.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I2.32591
Denice C. Adkins, Jenny S. Bossaller, H. Sandy
How do readers describe multicultural fiction works? While in library and information science (LIS) we have the language of appeal factorsand genre trendsto describe works of fiction, these linguistic choices may not be used by readers to describe their own responses and reactions to works that provide cultural affirmation of one’s own culture or exposure to learning different cultures. In this research, text mining processes are employed to harvest reader-generated book reviews and subsequently analyze the words readers use to describe award-winning multicultural fiction on the retailer site Amazon.com. Our goal with this study is to provide LIS professionals an insight into readers’ perspectives related to multicultural fiction. We describe our methodology of engaging in topic modeling as described by Jockers and Mimno (2013) as applied to multicultural fiction reviews. First, we explore the construction and processing of a corpus of reader reviews of multicultural fiction titles, then we model topics using a topic modeling toolkit to generate topics from these reviews. Through this analysis, we determine consistent terms used to describe multicultural fiction that can be used to indicate common reader experience and identify topics. Closing discussion reflects on whether librarians can use text mining of reader reviews to enhance their reader advisory services for readers seeking books that represent multiple and/or diverse cultures.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I2.32598
Linda C. Jolivet
Book Review
书评
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I2.32595
Ellen D. Gilbert
People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos (P&S/GyC) is a non-profit literacy outreach organization with headquarters in the U.S. state of New Jersey (https://peopleandstories.org/). P&S/GyC is guided by a belief in the power of literature to positively impact transitioning populations, such as halfway house residents, immigrants working toward citizenship, and veterans reintegrating into civilian life. Homeless parents and senior citizens are also invited to participate in P&S/GyC’s reading programs, which include oral readings and seminar-style discussions of literary short stories. The stories chosen for P&S/GyC programs typically embody the best qualities of enduring literature: artistic richness, explorations of life complexities, wonders, and ambiguities. Participants learn to connect knowledge synthesized from their own life experiences with stories under discussion in an atmosphere of trust established by trained facilitators. P&S/GyC’s beginnings date back to 1972, when founder Sarah Hirschman invited a group of Puerto Rican women in Cambridge, Massachusetts to engage with their cultural heritage through reading literature in their first language—Spanish. English reading groups were added to P&S/GyC’s design in 1986, and today the program collaborates with social service organizations, such as the Harvard Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment Lab, and other partner sites in the states of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. In 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities recognized the extraordinary work of P&S/GyC by funding a 30-month expansion program called “Reading Deeply in Community,” partnering with ten public library systems around the country.
《人物与故事》(P&S/GyC)是一家非营利性扫盲组织，总部设在美国新泽西州(https://peopleandstories.org/)。P&S/GyC相信文学的力量可以对过渡人群产生积极影响，例如中途居住的居民，努力争取公民身份的移民，以及重新融入平民生活的退伍军人。无家可归的父母和老年人也被邀请参加P&S/GyC的阅读计划，其中包括口头阅读和文学短篇小说的研讨会式讨论。为P&S/GyC节目选择的故事通常体现了不朽文学的最佳品质:艺术的丰富性，对生活复杂性、奇迹和模糊性的探索。参与者在训练有素的引导者建立的信任氛围中，学习将从自己的生活经验中合成的知识与正在讨论的故事联系起来。P&S/GyC的起源可以追溯到1972年，当时创始人萨拉·赫希曼(Sarah Hirschman)邀请了马萨诸塞州剑桥市的一群波多黎各妇女，通过阅读她们的第一语言——西班牙语的文学作品，了解她们的文化遗产。1986年，P&S/GyC的设计中加入了英语阅读小组，如今，该项目与社会服务组织合作，如哈佛人文与文科评估实验室，以及新泽西州、纽约州和宾夕法尼亚州的其他合作伙伴。2016年，美国国家人文基金会(National Endowment for the Humanities)认可了P&S/GyC的杰出工作，资助了一项为期30个月的扩展项目，名为“社区深度阅读”，该项目与全国10个公共图书馆系统合作。
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I2.32592
Emily J. M. Knox
This research expands on a previous discourse analysis of censorship on challenges to diverse books through more robust analysis of the challenge cases. The article specifically focuses on two common themes found in the arguments that book challengers give for the redaction, restriction, relocation, and removal of diverse titles in and from school curricula, school libraries, and public library collections in the U.S. The article begins with a working definition of diverse books and a brief overview of the campaign to increase their publication and circulation in the U.S. An overview of previous research on general book challenges and challenges to diverse literature is provided, as well as the methodology for analysis. The article concludes with a discussion of recommendations for protecting access to diverse books in public libraries and schools.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I3.32960
Kevin J. Mallary
Cover and journal credits pages for Volume 5, Number 1.
第5卷第1期的封面和期刊目录页。
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Pub Date : 2019-04-30DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I2.32593
M. E. Clariza
Reading in the Philippines is a process whereby the body, mind and spirit are engaged. Even though Filipinos are predominantly Catholic, many believe that creative energy, in the form of spirits, dwells in nature. These spirits must be respected or else they can unleash their wrath through sickness and natural calamities. As a contribution to preserving Filipino indigenous knowledge, this paper will explore whatok, the tattooing tradition of the Butbut people of Kalinga and t’nalak, the weaving tradition of the T’boli people of Mindanao. The aim of this paper is to preserve the unique culture of the Philippines’ indigenous peoples’ while sharing a decolonized perspective on reading. The term “decolonized” is used to mean peeling away the layers of nearly 400 years of Spanish and American colonial influence on Filipino culture. I will do this by studying the ways in which indigenous Filipino people record memory. The Philippines has an ancient syllabary system, but I will focus on older forms of transmitting ancestral knowledge, tattooing and textile making. Hopefully, this method will challenge readers to see tattoos and textiles as a valid means of documentation beyond printed text.
在菲律宾，阅读是一个身体、思想和精神都参与其中的过程。尽管菲律宾人主要是天主教徒，但许多人相信，以精神形式存在的创造性能量存在于大自然中。必须尊重这些灵魂，否则他们会通过疾病和自然灾害释放他们的愤怒。为了保护菲律宾本土知识，本文将探讨卡林加(Kalinga) Butbut人的纹身传统和棉兰老岛(Mindanao) t 'boli人的编织传统。本文旨在保存菲律宾“原住民”的独特文化，同时分享非殖民化的阅读观点。“去殖民化”一词的意思是剥离近400年来西班牙和美国殖民对菲律宾文化的影响。我将通过研究菲律宾土著居民记录记忆的方式来做到这一点。菲律宾有一个古老的音节系统，但我将重点介绍古老的传承祖先知识的形式，纹身和纺织。希望这种方法能够挑战读者，让他们看到纹身和纺织品是印刷文本之外的有效记录手段。
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Pub Date : 2019-02-10DOI: 10.33137/ijidi.v3i1.32269
Jeanie Austin
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth of color are frequently subject to forms of institutional oppression that shape their lives. Institutional forces are rarely mentioned in research on library services to youth. This project examines one possibility for creating more meaningful library services that acknowledge how state power and publishing trends limit access to meaningful representation for LGBTQ and gender non-conforming youth of color. It begins with the synthesis of ongoing campaigns for greater diversity in young adult literature; critical theoretical approaches to race, gender, and sexuality; and the needs identified by adults working for a critically situated community drop-in youth center for LGBTQ youth. Using a case study set in Oakland, California, the research focuses on how representative library materials might be positioned in culturally sensitive community spaces as one way to address the histories of exclusion and invisibility that have informed public library practice in the U.S.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-10DOI: 10.33137/ijidi.v3i1.32274
Treasa Bane
Book Review
书评
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Pub Date : 2019-02-10DOI: 10.33137/IJIDI.V3I1.32271
Rae-Anne Montague, Joseph A. Coyle
Librarians find themselves continuously challenged to provide a growing range of innovative services. In order to succeed, this complex task is grounded in local context and implemented based on the needs of users, be it students, patrons, clients, or community members. This article considers parameters of and discusses strategies for developing library services to meet the needs of incarcerated youth. How can librarians be effective in serving these young people who have been drawn into atypical realms, away from their communities, away from the Internet? There is a clear and urgent need to provide excellent library services to the approximately 60,000 youth incarcerated across the U. S. Currently, there are groups that emphasize services to these users. For example, Library Services for Youth in Custody (LSYC) is a professional interest group that focuses on providing a network to support these services. Other agencies are also involved, often as part of outreach programs, special projects, or on an ad-hoc basis. Together, these efforts result in a patchwork of services. In this case study, we draw on the experience of several dedicated individuals and groups that work to form a patchwork for building awareness, sharing resources, and meeting the informational needs of incarcerated youth. We critically consider these matters in theory and practice while reflecting back on the ten years of providing library services at a youth detention facility located in the U.S. Midwest; like many similar facilities, it has no librarian, no other library staff, and no regular library budget.
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