Resources

• Slides—Download PPTX
• Inclusive and Anti-Racist Collecting at UNLV—Draft Report and Recommendations https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_articles/748/

Presenters

• Annette Day, Division Director, Collections, Discovery, and Scholarly Communication, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Jennifer Culley, Lead Acquisitions Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Amy Tureen, Dean of Academic Support Programs, South Puget Sound Community College

Description

As many institutions seek to diversify their collections, library staff are grappling with how to implement and sustain efforts in this emerging practice area. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries (UNLV), the Inclusive and Anti-Racist Collecting working group identified needs around diversifying collections, set strategic goals, and identified concrete actions to undertake. In this webinar, learn how UNLV piloted initiatives to diversify collections and how South Puget Sound Community College built on practices that originated at UNLV and expanded them to implement reparations informed collecting across their acquisitions budget. While presenters discuss experiences specific to their differing environments, they also highlight learnings and approaches that can inform similar work across a range of libraries.

The activities at UNLV were among several libraries’ efforts explored in research done by OCLC RLP to understand the emerging practices among academic and research libraries that are working to diversify their collections.

This webinar will be of interest to collection managers, collection selectors and curators, and those who are interested in deepening a commitment to and practice to support equity, diversity and inclusion at their institutions. 

All affiliates of OCLC Research Library Partnership organizations are invited to participate.