Reading List

Blog Posts

Bogan, Kelsey. “Diversity Audit: A Practical Guide.” Don’t You Shush Me (blog). Diversity Audit: A Practical Guide .

Friebel, Jenna. “The Benefits & Limits of Diversity Audits.” Reading While White (blog). January 7,2019. The Benefits & Limits of Diversity Audits

Lee and Low Books, Laura M. Jiménez, and Betsy Beckert. “Where is the Diversity in Publishing? The 2019 Diversity Baseline Survey Results.” The Open Book Blog. https://blog.leeandlow.com/2020/01/28/2019diversitybaselinesurvey/

Leung, Sofia. “Whiteness as Collections.” Whiteness as Collections — Sofia Leung

Roos, Chelsey. 2020. “How to Conduct a Diversity Audit.” ALSC Blog. https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2020/09/how-to-conduct-a-diversity-audit/

Videos and Webinars

Adult Reading Round Table and RAILS. 2020. “Diversity Audits for Library Collections.” https://www.railslibraries.info/events/238461. Accessed September 3, 2021

Pittsford Central School District. 2019. “Library Diversity Audit - 2019.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdETN3lQLOo . Accessed September 3, 2021

Shaffer, S., Winner, M., & Miller, S. M. (2019, April 30). Does my collection reflect my community? Diversity in the school library [Webinar]. Alliance for Excellent Education. https://all4ed.org/webinar-event/does-my-collection-reflect-my-community-diversity-in-the-school-library/

Articles Discussing Audits by Other Libraries

Ciszek, Matthew P. and Courtney L. Young. 2010. “Diversity Collection Assessment in Large Academic Libraries.” Collection Building 29 (4): 154-161. doi: 10.1108/01604951011088899.

County of Prince Edward Public Library. 2021. “Diversity Audit, Phase 1.” https://www.peclibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/diversity-audit-report-2021-04-13.pdf. Accessed September 3, 2021.

Kristick, Laurel. 2020. “Diversity Literary Awards: A Tool for Assessing an Academic Library’s Collection.” Collection Management 45 (2): 151-161. doi:10.1080/01462679.2019. 1675209.

Mortensen, Annabelle. 2019. “Measuring Diversity in the Collection: A collection diversity audit is a crucial tool for libraries to assess their offerings. Starting small makes it manageable.” Library Journal 144 (4): 28-30. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=Measuring-Diversity-in-the-Collection

Proctor, Julia. 2020. “Representation in the Collection: Assessing Coverage of LGBTQ Content in an Academic Library Collection.” Collection Management 45 (3): 223-234. doi: 10.1080/01462679.2019.1708835.

Stivers, Julie. 2017. “Library Collection Shelf Audit for Diversity and Inclusion.” https://ready.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16627/2019/01/Library-Collection-Shelf-Audit-for-Diversity-Inclusion.pdf. Accessed September 3, 2021.

Stone, Scott M. 2020. “Whose Play Scripts Are Being Published? A Diversity Audit of One Library’s Collection in Conversation with the Broader Play Publishing World.” Collection Management 45 (4): 304-320. doi:10.1080/01462679.2020. 1715314.

Additional Articles

García, Susan A. Vega. 2000. “Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Library Collections: Ownership and Access of African American and U.S. Latino Periodical Literature.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 26 (5): 311-322. doi: 10.1016/S0099-1333(00)00137-3

Gross, H. (2019, October 7). “Diversity in the Stacks” initiative aims to make all students feel at home in the Library. The Daily Pennsylvanian. https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/10/penn-libraries-diversity-in-the-stacks

Morales, Myrna, Em Claire Knowles, and Chris Bourg. “Diversity, Social Justice, and the Future of Libraries.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 14 (3): 439-451. doi: 10.1353/pla.2014.0017.

Parker, Kim, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Rich Morin, and Mark Hugo Lopez. 2015. “Multiracial in America: Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers.” Pew Research Center.

Semenza, Jenny Lynne, Regina Koury, and Sandra Shropshire. 2017. “Diversity at Work in Academic Libraries 2010-2015: An Annotated Bibliography.” Collection Building 36 (3): 89-95. doi:10.1108/CB-12-2016-0038.