I can't believe so much time has passed since my last entry. The semester is flying by! Our readings for the three weeks of discussion really caused me to think. There is so much to take into account when conducting research and yet, there is no way to be completely unbiased and neutral. A person's race can interfere with the gathering and interpretation of data and they may be totally unaware. Until reading the Taft article, I didn't know that the white culture ignores race. It's not an "We are the World" mentality, but like it is wrong to bring attention to the differences. It has made me reflect on how I treat non-white patrons and what the library looks like to people of color. Our library board is all white as is our Friends Group and all the staff except an African American high school page and a clerk with an Egyptian linage. I wonder if we even see the whiteness of our world.