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Article title National Library Week
Article Evaluation
This article is neutrally written and provides citations for each claim. All information is relevant to the topic. It could use some updated information as there is information included specific to last year, and there is now information available from ALA that is specific to this year. There also appears to be more information in sources already being used that could be included in the article.

Sources
https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/04/13/national-library-week/

Article title Wayne A. Wiegand
Article Evaluation
There is a "release expected 2019" note that should be updated
Otherwise, information is relevant and organized well, sources are missing from career section and are only used in the "writing" section

Sources: Did not find anything good that was not already cited

Article title Russian State Children's Library
Article Evaluation: Some of the writing is clunky and there are a few things I would rephrase; Information included is relevant and sources are included

Sources
Russian National Electronic Children's Library
https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/doi/epdf/10.1080/19322909.2016.1201448?needAccess=true&role=button

Article title Freedom libraries
Article Evaluation: This article does address an equity gap; There seems to be a lot of good sources that this article is pulling from that have more information that could be included; The information included is neutrally written and well cited, but it could be fleshed out more and have more details added
Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25649066?mag=freedom-libraries-and-the-fight-for-library-equity; https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/libraries/article-abstract/5/1/102/271605/An-Emergency-Job-Well-Done-Friends-of-Freedom?redirectedFrom=fulltext; https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/10/02/freedom-libraries-violence-book-bans/

Article title Little Free Library
Article Evaluation: I would rephrase "all shapes and sizes"; I think the Little Free Pantries section should have their own article our be removed (this was discussed in the Talk section) - there is a community fridge article, and that information would make more sense there; I'm surprised this article is a stub as there is a lot of information included, and many (48) citations; Overall, this topic seems to be thoroughly covered although not necessarily up to date. The writing is generally neutral and information well cited
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