Diversity Audit
Minitex News articles tagged with "Diversity Audit" (4):
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Last Call to Register for the Minitex Conversation: Metadata Practices for Diversity in Collection Management
Registration for the Minitex Conversation: Metadata Practices for Diversity in Collection Management, will be closing soon.
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New Minitex Conversation: Metadata Practices for Diversity in Collection Management
In this special edition of the Minitex Conversation Collection Development series, we are collaborating with folks from the Technical Services Section (TSS) of the Minnesota Library Association. We will talk about diversity audits with two teams of librarians: Naomi Skulan and Peter Bremer from University of Minnesota Morris, and Christie Kess and Christian Koegel from Dakota County Library.
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More on diversity audits in your library
Once again, I was fortunate to attend a day-long virtual workshop titled, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries: Progress and Promise, hosted by Amigos Library Services. This workshop took a close look at EDI in libraries in order to explore what initiatives have worked and what have not. Out of the sessions I attend, I really seemed to get the most out of Checking Your Work: Using Diversity Audits to Make Collection Development Decisions.
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Thinking of doing a diversity audit?
I recently attended a Library Journal sponsored professional development webinar titled, Equity in Action: Building Diverse Collections. This 3-part webinar has offered information relating to everything from evaluating your collection to "offering windows into and mirrors of the vast array of perspectives and stories that make up our world." One section of this webinar included some basic information on performing a diversity audit of your collection.