Building More Diverse Collections for Younger Readers

dc.contributor.author	Bliss, Joanna Russell
dc.contributor.author	McMichael, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-14T17:45:17Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-14T17:45:17Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description	Presented at CTLC 2020	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Research has shown that children exposed to diverse books, especially those that have cross-racial groups, have better acceptance of children of other ethnicities as compared to those not exposed to diverse books. This has been a focus of public and school libraries for some time, as seen in the We Need Diverse Books program and other organizations advocating for diverse books in publishing, classrooms and libraries. Unfortunately, academic libraries and the role of their collections in training new educators has been largely absent in these conversations. With that in mind, a team of librarians at SMU Libraries analyzed our Juvenile Collection using the Diverse BookFinder suite of tools. We evaluated our current collection, recognized its strengths and gaps and are now using this analysis to improve our collection development practices. This presentation will take participants through how to use these tools and adapt them for an academic library context. Finally, we will discuss future opportunities of this initiative.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11274/12402
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.title	Building More Diverse Collections for Younger Readers	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US
dc.type	Video	en_US

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