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20 Feb, 6 tweets, 7 min read
Today is the Day of Remembrance, commemorating the day when FDR signed Exec. Order 9066, authorizing the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.

@InternetArchive & @DenshoProject present the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration:
archive.org/details/digita…
With a grant from the @NatlParkService, we have purchased & digitized 600+ books about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, making these often out-of-print books available to researchers, students, @Wikipedia editors & the public.
3/ Ranging from children's books, photo anthologies to scholarly works, the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration is among the largest collections of online books about this subject.
#history #JapaneseAmericans #WWII
4/ Working with @Wikipedia editors, we have linked hundreds of citations & Further Reading lists in articles like this one to the actual page in the digital book.
Great for students & anyone seeking greater context.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internmen…
#citations #JapaneseAmericans
5/ Now these 600 books are also directly linked to the @Densho Encyclopedia. This stellar online resource is a direct entry point to books, manuscripts, photos, & more.
encyclopedia.densho.org
By bringing these important books online, the @InternetArchive & @DenshoProject hope to spark a new generation of learners. To learn why passing on the story is so important, read @whanamura's personal account.

blog.archive.org/2019/09/26/wha…

#empoweringlibraries

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19 Feb
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19 Sep 20
Do you follow @ReadersFirst, a coalition of 300 libraries representing 200M readers? Here's what they have to say about the Big 5 #publishers business practices vis-a-vis #libraries:
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