The Availability of Gay and Lesbian Materials in Protestant College Libraries

Bosman, Ellen

doi:10.1080/01462679.2016.1169963

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“…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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