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works by and about Martin Luther King, W.E.B. DuBois, and of course,
Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land.
I was told that other departments of the Central library would
also yield me similar broad information, since no statistics at all on
the library's Afro-American materials were broken out for the Annual
Report. I thus decided to forego additional individual departmental
visits and proceeded to the North Jefferson Branch Library which was
housed in a building that was built in 1929 that had seen better days.
Because of its location in the black belt, this library had become a
depository for Afro-American materials, the concept being that in this
way it would best serve its community of users. I found the chief
librarian to be a young black man of great patience and energy. Al-
though the library houses a full collection of materials on all subjects,
it does have a special non-circulating collection of more than 4000
volumes on black history and culture. The criteria which determined
whether a book was placed in the non-circulating collection was at
best interesting-e.g., (1) if it were on black history and culture;
(2) its significance (based on heavy circulation - a book on O.J.
Simpson); (3) unusual children's books; (4) books by local black
authors; (5) books on the mass media from the black perspective;
(6) books on Caribbean and African rhythms. Price, out of print
materials, one copy items, reference books and books by certain authors
were other criteria. When questioned as to whom the special collection's
users were, the librarian.stated they were mainly college students who
were unable to find the materials they needed for their research else-
where, but also to be counted among the users were a few older adults
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Totten, Herman L. Bibliographical Control of Afro-American Literature, Volume 1: Papers Presented at a Conference, book, 1976; [Eugene, Oregon]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31167/m1/29/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.