The Library in the Lives of Latino College Students
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Libraries share a perception of embracing and providing for all users. However, they also share a common philosophical stance shaped by librarians’ individual discursive formations and the dominant cultural hegemony that values some users over others. Latinos constitute one of the fastest‐growing, nondominant populations in the United States, and the literature suggests that libraries do not always serve them adequately. This was reinforced by interviews with seven Latino undergraduate students that suggest ambiguous feelings toward libraries and a strong need for some sort of cultural reinforcement. This study of users’ perceptions of libraries may help librarians and policy makers consider more pluralistic approaches to library services.
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Because of a cultural history of excluding people of color from power and decision making and a racially homogenous profession, past and present decision makers about library spaces tend to share a cultural understanding of what faculty and student work is and should be; this may differ from realities of library staff and students of color.
“Unfortunately, with a cultural history of excluding people of color from positions of power and decision making, and a profession that continues to be extremely racially homogenous, those who have made decisions about library spaces in the past and those who continue to make them in the present tend to have a shared cultural understanding of what the work of faculty and students is and should be.S”
From In Pursuit of Antiracist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library (2015) · cites this paper as Adkins & Hussey, 2006
Several Latino/a students preferred local public libraries because they were smaller, more spatially legible, and had more visible culturally responsive material.
“Interestingly, several of the students interviewed reported that they preferred their local public libraries because they were smaller, more spatially legible, and had more visible culturally responsive material (p.472).”
From In Pursuit of Antiracist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library (2015) · cites this paper as Adkins & Hussey, 2006
Adkins and Hussey (2006) explored to what extent the values and interests of Latina/Latino college students are reflected in library systems in the US, touching on the governance dimension.
“Adkins and Hussey (2006), for example, explored to what extent the values and interests of Latina/Latino college students are reflected in library systems in the US, thus touching on the governance dimension.”
From Governance, Legitimation, Commons: A Public Sphere Framework and Research Agenda for the Public Library Sector (2015) · cites this paper as Adkins and Hussey 2006
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In Pursuit of Antiracist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library
Brook, F., Ellenwood, D., & Lazzaro, A. E. (2015) · Library Trends · doi:10.1353/lib.2015.0048 · Cited by 133 · see citing works
Latino Students' Perceptions of the Academic Library
Long, D. (2011) · The Journal of Academic Librarianship · doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2011.07.007 · Cited by 28 · see citing works
Widdersheim, M. M. (2015) · Libri · doi:10.1515/libri-2015-0043 · Cited by 23 · see citing works
- Authors
- Adkins, D., & Hussey, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- ORCID
- Adkins, Denice
- Venue
- The Library Quarterly
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2006-10
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 456-480
- ISSN
- 0024-2519 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-652X
- OpenAlex
- W2091488053
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 7.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- The Library Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- MOspace Institutional Repository (University of Missouri) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Science and Libraries
- Keywords
- Latino college students, library users' perceptions, library services, cultural hegemony, library inclusion, undergraduate students
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