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Promoting African American writers, library partnerships for outreach, programming, and literacy, Grace M. Jackson-Brown

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Promoting African American writers

bibliography

1140668624

Grace M. Jackson-Brown

library partnerships for outreach, programming, and literacy

"Helps a wide variety of librarians and teachers to develop programming that includes African American authors and multicultural themes"--, Provided by publisher"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"--, Provided by publisher