Looking for America: Keyword Searches for Diversity and Minorities in Children’s Materials in North Carolina Public Library OPACs Using Vernacular and Library of Congress Subject Heading Terms
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- February 28, 2019
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Peterson, Janet
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- According to U.S. Census Bureau data, by 2015 over half of all children in the United States under the age of 5 were racial or ethnic minorities. Changing racial and ethnic demographics, in addition to changing social attitudes about other diverse groups, have led to changes in popular terminology and a call for children’s books reflecting current diversity. However, Library of Congress Subject Headings may not reflect more current terminology, and public library OPACs may return different numbers of hits for vernacular and LCSH terms. This study examines the number of hits returned for children’s materials in ten North Carolina public library OPACs for selected vernacular and LCSH terms for racial, ethnic, and other diverse minorities. Differences in numbers of hits returned may suggest that OPAC users receive irrelevant results, or that users do not receive all relevant results for existing materials in library collections.
- Date of publication
- July 2017
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- Advisor
- Haas, Stephanie W.
- Degree
- Master of Science in Library Science
- Academic concentration
- Library and Information Science
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
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- ed517ebe-eb84-41b4-a34a-e8a9f28131e9
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