“…In their review, only a handful of publications covered the practical issues of collections diversity, such as descriptive metadata and collection assessment, while the majority of publications focused on workforce diversity. 6 As of July 2020, there were few additions to this body of literature, with the majority of publications focusing on particular topics of diversity, such as race and ethnicity, 7 LGBTQ representation, 8 Indigenous knowledge and tribal libraries, 9 or the role of special collections in addressing diversity. 10 Although a systematic approach to conceptualizing and measuring diversity is necessary for managing library collections, there are few examples beyond a handful of studies in the 1980s and 1990s that applied statistical measures of diversity to materials selection and collection assessment.…”