Noelle Baker

@noelleabaker.bsky.social

Independent scholar; DH; mom to cats and poppies; recovery of American women's texts, activism, and culture; Editor-in-Chief, Scholarly Editing (https://scholarlyediting.org/); https://noelleabaker.com/.

5/5 “A priority includes acquiring material of underrepresented perspectives in the Library’s collections to ensure diverse authorship, points of view, cultural identities, and other historical or cultural factors.”

3/5 “As the nation’s de facto national library, the Library of Congress strives to build an expansive, yet selective, collection that records the creativity of the United States and is reflective of the nation’s diversity and complexity.”

2/5 LOC criteria include the resource’s “usefulness in serving the current or future needs of Congress and researchers; uniqueness and quality of information provided; scholarly content; currency of information; relationship to other resources in the Library’s collections.”