January 2022

Session Resources:  Newspapers and  Digital Literature

African American Newspapers and the African American experience

• Dr. Aleen Ratzlaff

• Presentation and handouts

• Library of Congress Chronicling America site

  • Chronicling America - African American newspapers

• "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords" - YouTube

• The Struggle Against Racism in Leavenworth - Kansas History article of newspaper editor W.B. Townsend

Primary Source Analysis Tools

• • Library of Congress

  • National Archives

The New Black Press

• • The Root

  • The TRiiBe

  • The Grio

  • ZORA

Digital Literature Options 

• Slide Deck - YA Literature & Reader's Advisory Tools: Highlighting Controversial Books for Non-Traditional Students

• Kansas CloudLibrary

• Kansas State Library eCard presentation

• Hoopla - public library service that allows you to borrow digital movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and TV shows

• Libby - Borrow / read ebooks and audiobooks from public libraries

• How to Find & Use Trade Books to Change the World

• Free books from Audible.com

• eBooks and audiobooks list from Rachel Yoder

• Freading (unlimited checkouts)

• Novelist Plus - Book recommendation site (direct link on KS State Library  site)

  • Novelist: Finding Books by Genre (YouTube video)

• American Library Association Book Awards and Book Lists

Contact Information

• Darcie Canfield-Riggs
  Youth Services Librarian / Hutchinson Public Library  
  darcie.cr@hutchpl.org

• Andy Schafer
  Digital Collections Librarian / Kansas Public Library
  Andy.Schafer@ks.gov