A Tale of Two Audits.
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| Title: | A Tale of Two Audits. |
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| Authors: | Martin, Jennifer1 jmmartin@salisbury.edu, Prichard, Angeline, Weber, Erin2 emweber@salisbury.edu |
| Source: | RUSQ: A Journal of Reference & User Experience. Winter2026, Vol. 61 Issue 2, p32-46. 15p. |
| Subjects: | Protagonists (Persons), Library acquisitions, Collection development in libraries, Demographic characteristics, Academic libraries |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses two collection diversity audit projects undertaken by a mid-size university library. For the first project, we evaluated our leisure collection based on the characteristics of the main characters in the books, with the goal of adapting the process for our main collections. For the second project, librarians created a flexible spreadsheet that was used to track diversity metrics for new book orders. This article discusses why the first project did not work well for us, but taught us some valuable lessons about conducting a collection diversity audit, and how the second project better matched our needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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