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Culturally Diverse Materials - what are they and why have them?
    Content
    Formats
    Diversities - many kinds
    Does every library need everything?
    What about services?


  
Beth's Peeks from the Research:

Callison, D. (1990).  A review of the research related to school library media collections:  Part I.  School Library Media Quarterly, 19(1).

Callison, D. (1991).  A review of the research related to school library media collections:  Part  II.  School Library Media Quarterly, 19(2).

Lempke, S. D. (1999).  The faces in the picture books.  The Horn Book Magazine, 75(2), 141-147.

Whelan, D. L. (2004).  SLJ’s book buying survey.  School Library Journal, 50(9), 42-46.

Woody, D. (2000).  African-American biographies:  A collection development challenge. Journal of Youth Services in Libraries,  13(2), 5-9.

Teacher-Librarian, February 2009, theme issue: Diversity.

   
Specific Materials
    Materials featuring Native Americans/American Indians  (www.oyate.org)
    Best Loved Books - What to do?
    Bilingual Materials
    Materials featuring Latino cultures
    Materials Evaluation Exercise
       Evaluation Instrument taken from:

Naidoo, J. C. (2007). Forgotten faces:  Examining the representations of Latino subcultures in Americas and Pura
     Belpre Picturebooks.  New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship,  13 (2), 117-138


Resource updates:

Gray, E. S. (2009, March). The importance of visibility: Students' and teachers' criteria for selecting African American literature. Reading Teacher, 62(6), 472-481. Retrieved September 9, 2009, from Academic Search Complete database. (MAF read Kristie Michalowski's abstract of this article on 10-01-09;  file stashed in  C:Litnotes.)

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