05/28/2025
📣 Free Event Coming Up! 📣
"Evaluating Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
🗓️ June 4
🕚 11am Eastern
Learn more & Register: https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/webinar-evaluating-collections-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Libraries have long had a mission to serve all our users, going back to Ranganathan’s law that states “Every reader his book.” More recently libraries have understood this mission to include ensuring their collections reflect a variety of different life experiences. Diverse collections help teach users about those different from themselves and also allow people from minoritized groups to see parts of their identity reflected. In order to know if efforts to broaden representation are working and to spur continued action, it is useful to be able to measure diversity within the collection. A growing body of work in libraries, including the presenter’s forthcoming book, is developing and sharing methods for evaluating diversity in collections. In this webinar, the presenter will provide an overview of three main methods, explaining what each one can accomplish as well as its limitations.
Participations will be able to
- Articulate reasons why both diversity and assessment matter
- Select one or more of the 3 main methods for evaluating for diversity
- Choose an appropriate scope for an assessment project
