Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This book provides a practical, step—by—step approach to designing and implementing evaluation projects targeting a variety of DEI goals in academic library collections.

Offering both flexibility and detailed guidance, this book begins with a discussion of aspects of diversity that librarians could target in their assessment projects and notes project planning considerations such as defining a scope and timeline. It particularly notes how larger academic libraries can narrow the scope of a p...