Collection Development

Nicole Renee Almanza
Mar 5, 2018
3 min read

Updated: Mar 11, 2018

|Feb 6-13,2018

Selection of English materials for Genocide Collection

Neutinamu has added new books on the topic of Genocide. I was asked to contribute to the collection by selecting English language materials such as books, picture books, online articles, and media. This task by far was the most stimulating and challenging. With mostly an academic library work background and little experience in collection development processes, I struggled with decision making. I knew that I must chose resources that are accurate and reliable.

How can I be positive that the information is accurate and reliable without any expertise on genocide topics?

My first thought was to research organizations, academic libguides, book reviews, book lists written by scholars and experts in the area of genocide.

Here were my suggestions for the genocide collection:

BOOKS

Native American/United States

Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown et al. (2007)

Nanjing in China

Title: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (2012)

Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey

Title: Not Even My Name: A True Story by Thea Halo (2001)

Myanmar

Title: The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim (2018)

Ukraine

Title: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Ann Applebaum (2017)

Darfur/Sudan

Title: The Translator: A Tribeman's Memoir of Darfur by Daourd Hari (2009)

Cambodia

Title: Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick (2012)

MEDIA

German Holocaust

Shoah (1985)

China

Nanking (2007)

Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda (2014)

As We Forgive (2009)

PICTURE BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVEL

Cambodia

Half Spoon of Rice: a survival story of the Cambodian genocide (2010)

Darfur

The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney et al. (2015)

Rwanda

Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen (2006)

Bosnia

Flowers for Sarajevo by John McCutcheon (2017)

German Holocaust

Hidden: A child’s story of the holocaust by Loic Dauvillier & Greg Salsedo (2014)

ARTICLES

New York Times “Is This Genocide? Survivors describe Myanmar soldiers killing men, raping women and burning babies in a Rohingya village” by Nicholas Kristof (Dec 15, 2017)
BBC World and UK News “How to define genocide?” (March 16, 2016)
International Press Institute “Reporting Genocide: too little , too late” (April 2014) Linda Melvern author of Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Press_Institute
Washington Post “In 2017, the world let a genocide unfold” Author Ishaan Tharoor
Associated Press “Myanmar government denies AP report of Rohingya mass graves” (Feb 5, 2018)

|Feb 9-13, 2018

Selection of materials for new Subway Library in Gwanggyo Jungang Station

With a new subway station library opening up at the end of February, I was tasked to locate books from the existing collection that are a Korean translation of books published in English. Starting with sections F4, F5, G7, G10 I chose several books plus recommendations and added them to Neutinamu's chosen online book vendor Aladin. This task gave me the opportunity to familiarize myself even further with the Citizens Collection, how to navigate the book vendor website, and increase my Korean library vocabulary.