Cheryl Knott Malone

Books for Black Children: Public Library Collections in Louisville and Nashville, 1915-1925.

In the early twentieth century, both Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, provided racially segregated public library collections and services. In each case, children became a central focus of the work. Librarians who developed the childrens collections in library branches staffed and used exclusively by African Americans were limited by the need to educate as well as entertain, the dearth of books published for and about African-American children, and the professional practice of relying on standard selection guides. The childrens collections in Louisvilles and Nashvilles black branch libraries held many of the same books available in other public libraries, and some of those books included demeaning characterizations and images of African Americans. Branch librarians mediated between the children and the collections, creating services, such as story hours and reading clubs, that supported interpretive communities of young African American readers.

Unannounced and Unexpected: The Desegregation of Houston Public Library in the Early 1950s

Houston Public Library operated as a racially segregated system until 1953, when it quietly changed its policy to one of token integration. Occurring some seven years before the Houston Independent School District began to desegregate, the public librarys policy change depended on a few key individuals. Drawing on the librarys records of discussions and events, this article traces the history of a major shift in philosophy and practice at a large urban public library in the U.S. South.

Knowledge sharing and management in open access e‐resources & communities

An open access community is a digital repository or an online community where scientific information and communication are free to the public through computing technologies (Hanauske, M., et al 2007; Hubbard, C., et al, 2005). Open access community provides a new way for knowledge sharing and knowledge management. It takes advantage of collective expertise by providing a repository for research papers and research data that are scattered or take a long time to be published. The panel will discuss experiences and challenges people face in various open access communities. Particularly, we will discuss the following issues: • How did each community or repository achieve the functions of “organize” and “share” among people having a common interest in the community? • How long did it take to launch and establish an open-access community? • What impact of such an open-access community / repository has on peoples interaction with information? Impact on fee-based digital libraries or traditional libraries? • What the tradeoffs are between opened vs. controlled? • How well do they address privacy issues? • How well is current open access community/ repository meeting human needs, and what should future technology research and development involve to better meet user needs?

Copyright transfer agreements and self-archiving

Concerns about intellectual property rights are a significant barrier to the practice of scholarly self-archiving in institutional and other types of digital repositories. This tutorial demystifies the journal copyright transfer agreements (CTA) that often are the source of these rights concerns of scholars. In addition, we introduce the deposit processes of self-archiving in an interdisciplinary repository and open access archive (OAA), such as DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology

Gender & Community in the Social Construction of the Internet, by Leslie Regan Shade. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. viii + 152 pp.

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