The Information School
University of Washington
LIS 597 Capstone III — Indigenous Data Group
6:02 AM Today
Here's what everyone likes to see as 'progress', a nice big tidy graph of numbers-based data from over a century of publication in a location they understand.
We now have a usable chart based on all of the books and book-like materials in the Seattle Public Library collection published since 1900.
Based on the Language data we have from the Seattle Public Library, and combined with the publication sample data of the Native American literature since 1900, we can make a lot of inferences about percentages of Native books available in a public library collection.
Seattle Public Library Fiction and Non-Fiction Since 1900 (1900 – 2022)
Seattle Public Library Book Materials By Language Since 1900 (1900 – 2022)
Total Count
Seattle Public Library Book Materials By Language Since 1900 (1900 – 2022)
Proportional / Logarithmic
Seattle Public Library Available Languages Since 1900 (1900 – 2022)
Partial Screenshot of Total Count