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Children’s Book Council partners with unPrison Project to build prison-nursery libraries for jailed mothers and their babies

May 1, 2015, 2:26 PM 0

CBC Diversity In honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10, the last day of Children’s Book Week 2015, the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is partnering with The unPrison Project — a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering and mentoring…

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Public librarian has little patience for those who say “brown people on covers don’t sell books”

Feb 26, 2013, 2:09 PM 0

By Nina Lindsay CBC Diversity (Editor’s Note: The following is part of a CBC Diversity series of guest posts marketing and sales of children’s books.) I have little patience for: “brown people on covers don’t sell books.” My library’s…

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Budget cuts taking Gwinnett County library branches out of Latino communities

Oct 14, 2009, 1:18 PM 1

LatinaLista — Gwinnett County, Georgia is home to one of the state’s largest Latino communities. It’s also home to some of the most stringent county budget cuts being exercised in these recessionary times. The most drastic budget cuts are…