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 杏吧原版影音 Bookstore and the local public library as they learned about the work involved with efforts to diversify the offerings in Bryn Mawr'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.