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Professor Shaver Presents Faculty Book Talk on Latest Work
02/14/2020
Professor Lea Shaver presented about her book, "Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture," during a Faculty Book Talk event at IU McKinney. The discussion took place in the Wynne Courtroom on February 13.
The book, published by Yale University Press, highlights innovative nonprofit solutions to expand access to print. First Book, for example, offers diverse books to teachers at bargain prices. Imagination Library mails picture books to support early literacy in book deserts. Worldreader promotes mobile reading in developing countries by turning phones into digital libraries. Pratham Books creates open access stories that anyone may freely copy, adapt, and translate. Professor Shaver discusses the roles of copyright law and licensing have to play in the fight against book hunger.
In the photo from left are Professor Lea Shaver and Dean Andrew R. Klein.
