A group of student interns joined Library and Information Technology Services librarians and spent their spring break visiting Philadelphia bookstores and as well as the ůůֱ²¥ College Bookstore and the local public library as they learned about the work involved with efforts to diversify the offerings in ůůֱ²¥'s libraries. The internship culminated in students selecting 120 new books for the library collections from the two stores.
The participants put together a about the experience that includes information on the bookstores they visited, student reflections on the experience, book selections, and more.
"Before this internship, I did not realize that there is an immense amount of time, labor, and care necessary for a book to arrive on a shelf and, eventually, into my hands," writes Darpan Chahal '24.