Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440870279)

Learn how to successfully develop diverse programming through reading books by African American authors and how to build strong partnerships among libraries, public organizations, and academic departments for multicultural outreach.

Promoting African American Writers is written for librarians and others who are committed to developing programming that promotes reading of books by African American authors and books with multicultural themes. It is an outreach guide to be used by librarians, other educators, and community service advocates to develop educational programming that helps young people find their voices. It supports creativity and teaching of critical thinking skills to youth through literature.

Grace Jackson-Brown is an academic librarian with more than 25 years of professional experience and a personal passion for developing educational cultural library programming. Over the years, her efforts forged mutual working bonds between institutions of higher learning with community organizations in the spirit of community engagement and for the goals of promoting diversity and reading to K-16 youth. In this book, she teaches readers how to duplicate her efforts and build fruitful partnerships of their own.

Author: Grace M. Jackson-Brown
ISBN-10: 1440870276
ISBN-13: 9781440870279
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.22w x 0.41d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/21/2023 pg. 1
Choice 10/01/2023