Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has made librarians responsible for children’s book collections in academic libraries acutely aware of the need to acquire children’s and young adult materials in electronic formats. This research project compared the availability of 1,600 award-winning and professionally-recognized PreK–12 titles within the e-book platforms of EBSCO, Follett, Hoopla, Mackin, Overdrive, ProQuest, and Tumblebooks. In addition, the authors examined the availability of children’s e-books pertaining to racial/ethnic, gender, LGBTQ+, and disability diversity from these vendors. The results of this study indicated that there were substantial disparities in the availability of e-books by grade level and by publisher. The availability of titles pertaining to people of color, women, LGBTQ + persons, and people with disabilities was usually (but not always) similar or better compared to the availability of all titles in the dataset.

摘要

COVID-19 大流行使负责学术图书馆儿童图书收藏的图书馆员敏锐地意识到需要以电子格式获取儿童和青少年资料。该研究项目比较了 EBSCO、Follett、Hoopla、Mackin、Overdrive、ProQuest 和 Tumblebooks 电子书平台中 1,600 种获奖和专业认可的 PreK-12 图书的可用性。此外，作者还检查了这些供应商提供的有关种族/民族、性别、LGBTQ+ 和残疾多样性的儿童电子书的可用性。这项研究的结果表明，不同年级和出版商在电子书的可用性方面存在巨大差异。与有色人种、女性、LGBTQ + 人士有关的头衔的可用性，