"Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Library Collections: Ownership and Access of African American and U.S. Latino Periodical Literature" by Susan A. Vega García

Article

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Library Collections: Ownership and Access of African American and U.S. Latino Periodical Literature

Journal of Academic Librarianship (2000)

Susan A. Vega García, Iowa State University

Abstract

Measures ownership of and access to African American and Latino periodical literature, illustrating the successes and failures in promoting racial and ethnic diversity in research libraries belonging to the ARL (Association of Research Libraries). Discusses desirability of multicultural collections; bibliographic control and access issues; and correlations between indexing and ownership.

Keywords

library collections,
information access,
African American,
Latino,
multicultural diversity

Disciplines

Publication Date

2000

Citation Information

Susan A. Vega García. "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Library Collections: Ownership and Access of African American and U.S. Latino Periodical Literature" Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 26 Iss. 5 (2000)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/susan_vegagarcia/2/