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Borrowing Books from the Diverse BookFinder Collection

A row of racially and culturally diverse picture books displayed on top of a library bookcase including a Barack Obama biography.

The Diverse BookFinder is housed at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. All books included in the collection are available to borrow via interlibrary loan. Depending on where you are, there are three ways to check out our books: Borrowing directly from Bates (CBBCat) Anyone with a Bates College ID or community card can borrow books directly […]

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An Experiment with Inclusive Literature, Part II: One White Elementary Librarian’s Endeavor to Diversify Her Picture Book Collection

As some of you may remember, I started this year by writing a blog post about a collection development experiment I decided to undertake that was focused by this question: What if the only picture books and picture book biographies I buy for my K-3 collection only featured characters of color? It is now late-February […]

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