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In Honor of the International Day for People of African Descent

The United Nations has declared August 31st of each year to be an International Day for People of African Descent, a time to honor the accomplishments of peoples descended from the African Diaspora. As such, please check out:

Finally, A Library That Functions As An Archive Of Books, Music And Film For Black People (By Daysha Loppie, ByBlacks.com)

https://byblacks.com/entertainment/books/item/3305-finally-a-library-that-functions-as-an-archive-of-books-music-and-film-for-black-people

Turning Nairobi’s Public Libraries Into ‘Palaces for the People’–A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces (By Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times)

.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/books/nairobi-kenya-books-library.html

Haitian Immigrants’ Information Needs and Behaviors: Libraries,
Information Professionals and Haitians in the United States (By Natasha Finnegan, San Jose School of Information Student Research Journal)

https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1447&context=ischoolsrj

Work begins on Liberia’s first post-war public library (By David Rogers, Global Construction Review)

https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/work-begins-on-liberias-first-post-war-public-library/

Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana–Digital Collections

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