Minot Public Library launched a new program last year called Twisted Stitches, a small, quiet meeting for people who love to crochet, knit and do other yarn-rel
It’s not often that any business makes it around the sun one hundred times, which is why Gate City Bank has seen fit to chronicle a century of stories and eve
Zhaina Moya has been named the new director of the Minot Public Library. Moya, who had been serving as interim director, was selected by the Minot Public Librar
The Minot Public Library Board didn’t remove any books after hearing from residents Thursday regarding LGBTQ-themed items in its children’s and young adult
Mar 6, 2021
In 2015 only 14.2% of characters in children’s books represented minorities; this number covered four different nationalities while 73.3% of characters were white. Meanwhile, 12.5% of characters were animals or inanimate objects. What does this mean? This means that there were more books about rabbits and bulldozers than about any other non-white race. With that in mind, the Minot Public Library began a Diversity Audit in 2020 to look deeply at their collection of books see if the collection represented diversity in a thoughtful way.
Why does diversity and representation matter for public libraries? Public libraries are intended to serve, and thus represent, everyone within a community. During the Minot Public Library’s November “Sweater Weather” program, staff reached out to local indigenous community members and asked them “When did you first read a book by an indigenous author?” One person responded stating that she didn’t read a book by an indigenous