Vernon Leighton
Books in languages other than English are often scarcely-held in Minnesota. This is especially true of children’s books.
Olsen, Ib Spang. Hvordan vi fik vores naboer. Gyldendal, 1969.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
Every library collection has its unique qualities. The patterns of books in our retention list demonstrate where our collection differs from others. Within the first thousand volumes of our retention list labelled, the longest streak of consecutive separate titles (not just volumes of a series, such as in story three) was five, and those books deal with the economy of Bangladesh. Not only does that shelf have a run of five titles, but it has three additional retention titles. Apparently, our campus has had a strong interest historically in the economy of Bangladesh, stronger than other campuses in Minnesota. Below is one title in that streak. Note: this record run was ultimately matched by musical scores by Joaquín Rodrígo (see story twenty), and will likely be exceeded during further labeling.
Seabrook, Jeremy. Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today. London: Zed Books, 2001.
Until around 2010, Winona State had a French major. Emerita French professor Rosine Tanenbaum taught a course about literature written in the French language by people who were citizens of nations other than France, which is sometimes called “Francophone literature.” Librarians Joe Mount and Joe Jackson worked with her to enhance our Francophone literature collection. Some of those books are on our retention list.
Assia Djebar was an Algerian novelist and a Muslim feminist. She was the first writer from the Maghreb to be elected to the Academie Francaise. Aime Cesaire was a poet and politician from Martinique. He was a founder of the Negritude Movement in French literature.
Djebar, Assia. La disparition de la langue française: roman. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003.
Césaire, Aimé, and William Shakespeare. Une Tempête: Théâtre: d’après “La Tempête” de Shakespeare: adaptation pour un théâtre nègre. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1997.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.