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May 14, 2021

Students Expand a School Library as Professor Builds a Language and Anti-Bias Program

Using the Bates College tool Diverse Book Finder, Mohamed Kilani ’21 and Norell Sherman ’21 purchased 250 new picture books about many different cultures and languages for a Brunswick elementary school. This semester, they also visited the Kate Furbish school weekly to scour the library’s collection, identifying multicultural books and cataloguing them by language and culture to make them easier to find. Read Full Story here

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