[Eril-l] Core Forum: An Integrated Approach to a Diversity Audit

Wed May 1 05:00:00 PDT 2024

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

Best of Core Forum: An Integrated Approach to a Diversity Audit

Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Description:

Collection diversity audits are not a new phenomenon for libraries. While
many public and school libraries have taken these projects with varying
levels of success; academic libraries, especially medium and large-sized
academic libraries have been hesitant to commit to a collection diversity
audit or have done so in a limited capacity. Many medium and large academic
libraries approach diversity audits and focus on a specific area of their
collection since large-scale projects of this nature can be time-consuming
and unmanageable. Even when an administration supports Diversity Audits,
projects such as this can be daunting and/or given low priority as academic
libraries see declining budgets and limited staff available to perform
these types of operations. This webinar will focus on one unconventional
approach taken as an ongoing pilot collection diversity audit and a shelf
space review project in a large midwestern urban academic library. With
limited resources, this method collected and evaluated five years of DEIA
and Social Justice selections and acquisitions data for the library’s
general collection, re-envisioning a collection development policy, and
shelf review study with a sense toward maximizing current and future space
efficiency.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:

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   Gain insight into utilizing a holistic approach that includes diversity
   audits and shelf space reviews, using a collection development policy as a
   foundation to build a robust acquisition and collection management process
   to support DEIA and Social Justice resources across an academic library
   collection.

Who should attend?

This webinar is directed primarily towards acquisitions and collection
management librarians, project managers, and librarians in leadership
positions focused on DEIA strategies to balance their collections.

Presenters:

Derek Wilmott is the Acquisitions & Collection Management Librarian at the
University of Toledo Libraries. He received his MLIS from the University of
South Carolina in 2003 and began as a serials cataloger, spending the
majority of his career in various areas of technical services at Clemson
University. He currently serves on the ALA Core Access and Equity Section
Leadership Team, ODLOS Services to Refugees, Immigrants, and Displaced
Persons subcommittee, and is Co-Chair of the Social Responsibility Round
Table Programming Committee.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1119

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*

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