The kids I was helping however, were not. It still comes down to my wanting to be able to provide quality reader’s advisory.īack around 2012 or so, I began to notice that whenever I’d go to pull books for kids to look over – middle graders in particular – most of the time, the protagonists were all white.
But I suspect many people may be confused as to why I care about keeping track of how many authors of color that I read, or how many books by men that I read. The reason why I keep track of different types of age/format categories should be pretty obvious, given the reasons I’ve stated above. However, reading widely and often also helps with storytimes, displays, and all kinds of other responsibilities. I currently only order teen ebooks, so it’s not like I need to keep up on new picture books in order for my library’s collection to stay current. My main concern is making sure that my reader’s advisory suggestions are varied and current. I also do it because, as a youth services librarian, I feel that it’s important that I read a certain amount of books, and certain amount of different types of books, in order to do my job properly. The main reason is because my brain is weird and I find it interesting to compare all these numbers. However, since I am years late posting this, I thought that I’d include a reminder/explanation as to why I even keep track in the first place. So the percentages are pretty much exactly what the totals are. The numbers themselves are pretty self-explanatory for 2014, owing to the fact that I read just about 100 books.
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