Representations of Asia in Western Australian Public Library Collections

Steady ship: Digital, online, and e-libraries (1971–2020)

“…Similarly, Pashootanizadeh and Rafie 47 highlight the views of users and public library directors through social media. Moreover, several researchers assert the significance of online libraries through different lens including use of web based information resources in university library and public library collection 48 , libraries in distance education in Nigeria 25 , Internet in public libraries of South Africa 49 , technology in libraries 50 , reconceptualization system in terms of digital library 51 , digital reference services 52 , access service in academic library 53 , data privacy policy in public library 54 , library services and data insecurity 55 , services for digital collections 56 , library resources and research support 15,16 , copyrights in university library 57 , information libraries 31 , Internet resources in Russia 58 , grey literature in Belgium library 59 , e-learning library 60 , e-books in library 61 , and online library 2 .…”

Radical Empathy in the University Archives: Examining Archival Representations of Chinese Students from 1906 to 1920

“…A growing body of LIS work has reflected on how underrepresented communities can be further marginalized in cultural institutions. First, library and archival collections often lack materials that sufficiently represent marginalized communities, such as Black communities in the US (Mastley, 2020) and Asian communities in Australia (White & Woods, 2021). Second, knowledge representation systems used in libraries and archives can be culturally insensitive to marginalized groups, such as library classification systems (e.g., Hajibayova & Buente, 2017; Ragaller & Rafferty, 2012), subject headings (e.g., Buente et al, 2020).…”