Diversity Literary Awards: A Tool for Assessing an Academic Library’s Collection

Kristick, Laurel

doi:10.1080/01462679.2019.1675209

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“…The KUL project utilized many of the data collection methods of Kristick's (2020) diversity awards checklist study but did not entirely replicate the analysis methods. The current study did not include Walker's "An Annotated Bibliography of Books, DVDs, and Internet Resources on GLBT Latinos and Latinas," (2015) but did use the rest of the awards selected by Kristick.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More recently, library literature has included a plethora of articles describing various collection assessments related to diversity. Examples of studies include checklists of awardwinning titles (Kristick 2020;Proctor 2020), reviewing e-book usage (Backowski and Morton 2019), evaluating subjects of titles selected through DDA (Blume 2019), a holistic approach to examining a collection for representation/exclusion of an identified group (Bowers 2021), and a title level audit of author's identities in already held materials (Emerson and Lehman 2022). All of these studies determined that their library collections lacked adequate representation of the groups under review.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Librarians constantly reiterate that there are many barriers to building collections that truly include diverse voices (Price 2021). Those responsible for the development of general collections must look beyond the traditional types of academic materials and established methods of selection and acquisition (Blume and Roylance 2020;Bowers et al 2021;Kristick 2020). For example, Henzi (2016) argues that Indigenous writers use graphic novels and comics to tell their stories, but these materials are not always collected, and they are not handled by our traditional vendors.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diversity in Monographs: Selectors, Acquisitions, Publishers, and Vendors

Monroe‐Gulick

Morris

2023

Collection Management

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In 2020 the University of Kansas Libraries began a year-long diversity audit of the circulating monograph collection. The study, which utilized the checklist method evaluated the Libraries' holdings based on a curated list of award winning and nominated titles. In addition to determining if specific titles were part of the collection, the study also sought to learn how these books were acquired. The study found that the library owned 60% of the 6,671 titles checked and of those with a known acquisitions method, 59% came via an approval plan. Titles and publishers not profiled by GOBI were significantly less likely to be in the collection as they were not included in the approval plan or highlighted by a slip notification. The Libraries' reliance on GOBI and efficient and streamlined selection and acquisition processes has resulted in a less diverse collection.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Diversity in Monographs: Selectors, Acquisitions, Publishers, and Vendors

Monroe‐Gulick

Morris

2023

Collection Management

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“…In recent years, public recommitments to racial and social justice in the United States have driven a flurry of new attempts at conducting diversity audits. New methods include checking grassroots-developed title lists such as #OwnVoices and GoodReads, reviewing book awards lists, developing minimum targets by using U.S. Census data, and incorporating reflective questions that weed out bias (Cruz, 2019;Kristick, 2020;Wood, 2021). Others have focused on collections supporting LGBTQIA+ and gender-noncomforming populations (Adler, BEYOND THE DIVERSITY AUDIT 6 2017;Bosman, 2016;Drabinski, 2013;Graziano, 2016;Moss, 2008;Proctor, 2020;Scoggins, 2018;Wagner & Crowley, 2020).…”

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Beyond the Diversity Audit: Uncovering Whiteness in Our Collections

Koob¹,

Aguilera²,

Carey³

et al. 2023

Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community

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In late 2020, a group of librarians at the University of Colorado Boulder came together to pursue the design of a diversity audit for monograph collections. After initial research and reflection, we realized that evaluating our existing collection on its racial or ethnic representation would not only be problematic, but also unnecessary, because it was clear to us that our collections are dominated by white voices and perspectives. How could they be otherwise? They were built for a primarily white audience as part of a system of knowledge production dominated by whiteness.We questioned whether the framework of a "diversity audit" really addressed our goal of a systematic anti-racist approach to collections management. This paper details our process of rejecting the diversity audit framework for a large-scale review of monographs in a large academic library collection in the United States. It reviews the literature regarding diversity audits, as well as background on whiteness studies, as it leads to our rationale for instead developing a workbook for collection selectors. This workbook will position collection management practices within the White Institutional Presence (WIP) conceptual framework developed by scholar Diane Gusa (2010).

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“…41 Kristik evaluates literature collections by determining diversity book awards and using those lists as an evaluation tool. 42 Only one published diversity audit article targets art and design collections. 43 The study focuses on print monographs and analyzed each author's identity.…”

Section: Collections Diversity Auditsmentioning

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Representational Belonging in Collections: A Comparative Study of Leading Trade Publications in Architecture

Mathews

2021

LRTS

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This study stems from a simple question: how do libraries reflect the communities they serve? The research analyzes a subset of periodical literature to measure how women are reflected, specifically women of color, in architecture library collections. It focuses on four major publishing outputs of architecture literature to sample the ratio of women leaders in featured architectural firms. These commonly used periodicals were chosen to measure which firms are presented to an architectural readership. The findings document variation in demographic representation, but evidences that across the board firms covered in these publications have proportionately less women of color in their leadership teams. Librarians will find takeaways for both collection development and management and public services.

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Diversity Literary Awards: A Tool for Assessing an Academic Library’s Collection

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Diversity in Monographs: Selectors, Acquisitions, Publishers, and Vendors

Diversity in Monographs: Selectors, Acquisitions, Publishers, and Vendors

Beyond the Diversity Audit: Uncovering Whiteness in Our Collections

Representational Belonging in Collections: A Comparative Study of Leading Trade Publications in Architecture

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