Collection Development – IDEA in Collections Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Sources

Baildon, Michelle, Dana Hamlin, Czeslaw Jankowski, Rhonda Kauffman, Julia Lanigan, Michelle Miller, Jessica Venlet, and Ann Marie Willer. “Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries.” MIT Libraries, 2017. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/108771.

Baildon et al. outline economic, socio-political, and cultural systems of power and oppression from and through which collections emerge, as well as ways for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries to address these systemic problems. They recommend four broad strategies to bolster diversity, inclusivity, and social justice (DISJ) across the MIT Libraries: (1) reevaluate their scholarly publication subscriptions and vendors, seek out marginalized vendors, and investigate open access alternatives; (2) revise acquisition policies, acquire marginalized communities’ materials, hire staff trained to work with marginalized communities’ materials, and use inclusive language in material descriptions; (3) partner with the community, support groups advancing DISJ values, and connect with students to promote information sciences; and (4) build an organizational infrastructure for DISJ within the library by promoting DISJ events, providing trainings, celebrating successes, and systematically reviewing policies, procedures, and dependencies to evaluate whether they contribute to or detract from DISJ values.

Bledsoe, Kara, Danielle Cooper, Roger Schonfeld, and Oya Y. Rieger. Leading by Diversifying Collections: A Guide for Academic Library Leadership. Ithaka S+R, November 9, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.317833.

In this Ithaka S+R research report, Bledsoe, Cooper, Schonfeld, and Rieger offer a guide, with examples, takeaways, and exercises, for academic library administrators to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values in their collections. The authors outline the process of setting goals, identifying stakeholders, guiding strategies, and tracking process (“Creating the process”); evaluating collections, identifying gaps, and determining which materials to reframe or remove (“Shaping the collection”); securing funds and resources as well as appropriately allocating that money and support (“Allocating resources”); and setting concrete goals while fostering a healthy cultural attitude to ongoing DEI work in collections (“Reaching ‘the end’”). The report concludes with an extensive current bibliography of “resources for further reading,” along with a list of well-known library administrators and collections managers interviewed by the authors.

Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. New York: Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003001355.

Urgent Archives reckons with how pervasive and intertwined oppressive and violent practices are within Western archives. Caswell takes us through four chapters that introduce us to how harmful practices and epistemologies are endemic to archival work, how community archives are responding to and working against harmful practices to make archives representative and restorative, and finally how archives can become liberatory and reparative spaces as well as how archivists can work toward those outcomes. Caswell’s book interrogates archival assumptions, policies, and practices in the hope of finding frameworks that move from longstanding violence and erasure toward the possibilities of community archives and community engagement.

Caswell, Michelle, Alda Allina Migoni, Noah Geraci, and Marika Cifor. “‘To Be Able to Imagine Otherwise’: Community Archives and the Importance of Representation.” Archives and Records 38, no. 1 (2017): 5–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2016.1260445.

Caswell, Migoni, Geraci, and Cifor advance a new framework for recognizing and quantifying the impact of community archives on marginalized communities. They do so by analyzing interviews with administrators and staff across Southern California. These interviews inspired the authors’ tripartite framework: a person from a marginalized community finds themselves represented within the archive (ontological), members of a marginalized community find themselves represented (epistemological), and members of a marginalized community feel they belong in the archive (social). These three concepts combined result in “representational belonging,” in which marginalized persons and communities feel represented by and a part of the archive. On the other hand, symbolic annihilation refers to underrepresentation or misrepresentation of a marginalized community in archives and culture. Community archives’ largest impact, then, is their ability to work against symbolic annihilation through representational belonging.

Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/687705.

Caswell and Cifor propose a pivot from the rights-based framework used to discuss social justice in archives in favor of a method based in a feminist ethics of care—in particular, based on the practice of radical empathy. A feminist ethics of care shifts toward a reparative and restorative approach that has been elided in rights-based frameworks; it leans on ideas of community and mutual obligation rather than individualism, and it recognizes that injustice is intersectional, is macro and micro, and pervades the public and private. As such, it provides a natural pathway to a more affective and empathetic approach to the work of archives. Empathy can interconnect archivists and materials and bridge the archive and the community, inviting archivists and institutions to partner with the creators of and the communities represented in materials.

Ciszek, Matthew P., and Courtney L. Young. “Diversity Collection Assessment in Large Academic Libraries.” Collection Building 29, no. 4 (October 2010): 154–161. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604951011088899.

Ciszek and Young’s article offers different methods to assess an academic library’s collections for diversity regardless of the collection’s size or the intent of the assessment, whether that goal is to address current gaps in collections or plan future acquisitions. Potential quantitative methods include comparing local library holdings to WorldCat holdings using Library of Congress subject headings, reviewing standard bibliographies of materials from marginalized communities, entering custom diversity codes into acquisition records at point of purchase, and evaluating circulation and use statistics. Qualitative methods include inviting a diversity subject specialist to assess the collection, creating a diversity statement for collections, obtaining stewardship letters that document how subject specialists select materials, conducting focus groups, and surveying or interviewing patrons. Cizek and Young underscore that academic librarians should proactively develop methods and metrics for measuring a collection’s diversity, and that increasing the diversity of collections should be central to all discussions on policies and procedures.

Daniel, Dominique. “Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives.” The American Archivist 73, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 82–104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27802716.

Charting developments in the field since the 1960s, Dominique Daniel shows evolution of what she defines as “ethnic archiving”—the changes in archival processes and theory to document the experiences of immigrants and different ethnic communities. She starts with Howard Zinn’s famous observation of the biases and silences within the archives through the difficulties faced by archivists who sought to address Zinn’s critique: the difficulties of collecting and elevating the records and materials of immigrant and ethnic communities, and the real challenge of and need for building trust and connections with these communities. According to the author, much of this work is buoyed by postmodernism’s popularity and the development of digital technologies for archives. Daniel emphasizes the necessary and integral work of continuing to involve ethnic and immigrant communities in archival processes and to form deeper relationships with them.

Jahnke, Lori M., Kyle Tanaka, and Christopher A. Palazzolo. “Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Structural Barriers to Collections Diversity in Research and College Libraries.” College & Research Libraries 83, no. 2 (2022): 166–183. https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/25342/33207.

Jahnke, Tanaka, and Palazzolo examine the ideologies and practices that undermine efforts to assess and advance collection diversity in libraries. Issues with collection diversity are pervasive in libraries. The authors argue that issues with description, usage reports, staffing and expertise, and budget all hinder collection diversity. These issues are exacerbated by libraries’ struggles to define what constitutes a diverse collection. Suggestions for addressing these fiscal, ideological, and systemic issues include to stay aware of and work against biases when indexing materials, to read and embody as praxis what can be learned from current research on social justice, to engage with usage or other collection data critically to avoid further marginalizing voices, to hire diverse staff and encourage the development of expertise, and to find creative or collaborative uses for libraries’ limited budgets. Tackling structural barriers may offer libraries ways of working toward more diverse collections and supporting that work for years to come.

Kristick, Laurel. “Diversity Literary Awards: A Tool for Assessing an Academic Library’s Collection.” Collection Management 45, no. 2 (2020): 151–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2019.1675209.

Kristick investigates the possibility of using literary award lists to address gaps in collections of books by and about underrepresented groups. Collecting book lists from a range of sources, including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and the Native American Literature Symposium, Kristick searched for these books within her institution’s holdings. The findings give Kristick an understanding of how much literature her institution has from an underrepresented group as well as the number and type of publishers from which they acquire materials. The author found that her institution’s acquisition policies were reflected in its holdings, most of which came from scholarly or university presses rather than more prominent and diverse publishers. Her analysis highlights the need to update collection development policies, review the publishers from which libraries acquire materials, prioritize presses that publish diverse materials, and receive the benefits of adding diverse book award lists to any collection review or acquisition process. Doing so works toward diversifying any collection’s materials to better represent literature by or about marginalized communities.

Kumbier, Alana, and Julia Starkey. “Access Is Not Problem Solving: Disability Justice and Libraries.” Library Trends 64, no. 3 (2016): 468–491. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613919.

Kumbier and Starkey explore how the discourse of accessibility in libraries benefits from being put in conversation with disability scholars’ and activists’ work on access. More specifically, they ask that administrators, librarians, and library workers consider disability as more than ADA compliance and a problem to be solved. Rather, library staff should recognize that disability is a fluid and socially constructed experience—one shaped by social, cultural, political, economic, and historic factors—as well as an individual and specific experience that necessitates material accommodations. Library staff must consider both the material and systemic issues of access. Kumbier and Starkey suggest community-informed approaches to determining and addressing issues of access; increased recruitment, education, and support of persons with disabilities by information science graduate programs and libraries; publication of the perspectives of persons with disabilities and disability scholars within library and information science journals; and intersectional understandings of access and accessibility.

O’Neal. Jennifer R. “‘The Right to Know’: Decolonizing Native American Archives.” Journal of Western Archives 6, no. 1 (2015): Article 2. https://doi.org/10.26077/fc99-b022.

O’Neal details efforts to decolonize collections and archives, particularly in the American West. Following Vine Deloria’s “The Right to Know” (1978) as an evaluative framework, she surveys reparative work done to decolonize archives and reconnect Native American communities to their documents, working against archival exclusion, both physically and materially. She also documents efforts to develop Native American archives by and for the community as well as advocacy for the training of Native American librarians and archivists. O’Neal advocates for the inclusion of Native Americans in processing and maintaining their communities’ records and for recognition of the limitations of Western archival theoretical frameworks for Native American collections. She also suggests combining archival theory and processing with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). O’Neal underscores the necessity of access, collaboration, healing, reconciliation, and restoration for decolonization to succeed.

Powell, Chaitra, Holly Smith, Shanee’ Murrain, and Shyla Hearn. “This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker.” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): Article 5. https://doi.org/10.5334/kula.25.

Powell, Smith, Murrain, and Hearn look through their experiences as Black women archivists in distinct organizations to uncover ways that archives, institutions, and the archival profession can support and sustain Black community archives. They approach this exploration in four sections: advocacy, collaboration, truth, and agency. Each reflects a central approach in each respective author’s experience with Black archives. Each finds ways of connecting the Black community to the archive, involving voices typically erased from or excluded from participating in shaping collection procedures or exhibition curation, for example. This work can be reparative and restorative, though as the authors acknowledge, the work is ongoing. What is required is organizations reassessing and adjusting themselves to partner with Black communities and intentionally re-invest in community relationships fiscally, procedurally, and ideologically.

Proctor, Julia. “Representation in the Collection: Assessing Coverage of LGBTQ Content in an Academic Library Collection.” Collection Management 45, no. 3 (2020): 223–234. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2019.1708835.

Proctor argues that collection assessment for LGBTQ materials within any library necessitates multiple methods, as the field is an inherently interdisciplinary one. She adopts a variety of approaches to quantitative and qualitative collection assessment, ranging from size/growth, to circulation statistics, list checking, and surveys. In particular, list checking offers a chance for libraries to dive into the particulars of any general statistics and, for example, determine how many LGBTQ materials reflect winners and nominees from LGBTQA literary awards as well as whether the LGBTQ materials are affirming or non-affirming. Proctor points to the difficulties of collection assessment in academic libraries, such as collections that are spread across multiple divisions or discipline- or community-specific libraries and centers. Using multiple collection assessment methods enables libraries to better understand their holdings and gaps, particularly with marginalized communities, whose materials are often multidisciplinary and dispersed.

Morales, Myrna, Em Claire Knowles, and Chris Bourg. “Diversity, Social Justice, and the Future of Libraries.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 14, no. 3 (2014): 439–451. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2014.0017.

In this essay, Morales, Knowles, and Bourg advocate for academic libraries and library staff to ramp up diversity and social justice efforts within their institutional environments and in partnership with the increasingly diverse communities they serve. Pointing out that library practices reinforce existing structures of inequity and privilege, the authors note key priorities, including increasing demographic diversity in predominantly white and female librarianship and developing social justice praxis in collection development and classification and other areas. The Yvonne Pappenheim Library on Racism in Boston is presented as a case study of community engagement and grassroots social justice work. Sweeping in its recommendations, this influential essay is widely cited in the library literature.

Vega García, Susan A. “Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Academic Library Collections: Ownership and Access of African American and U.S. Latino Periodical Literature.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 26, no. 5 (September 2000): 311–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0099-1333(00)00137-3.

Published in 2000, Vega García’s article is a starting point for research into contemporary approaches for using collection development to foster diversity of voices. She identified 87 African American and 52 Latino/a periodicals, a blend of research journals and leisure magazines such as Jet and Hispanic. Vega García examined print holdings and abstracting and indexing services for each title available through 107 members of the Association for Research Libraries (ARL). While most of these libraries collected a majority of the African American research journals, less than a third of ARL members collected at least half of the Latino research titles, and few ARLs collected very many leisure publications, which generally lacked indexing. Vega García concludes that libraries should prioritize collecting of research and especially leisure periodicals covering racial and ethnic minorities, and she also calls on indexing services to improve their coverage of minority publications.

Additional Resources

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Aguilera, Arthur. “Anti-Racist Library Collection Building.” University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries, n.d. https://libguides.colorado.edu/anti-racist-collections-review-acquisitions/home.

Ahmed, Sara. “The Language of Diversity.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30, no. 2 (March 2007): 235–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870601143927.

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Ash, Jared, and Daisy Paul. “Know Their Names: Case Studies in DEIA Collection Development Assessment, Expansion, and Access.” Presented at the ARLIS/NA 50th Annual Conference, Chicago, April 6, 2022. https://mediaspace.msu.edu/id/1_by1q3ava.

Baildon, Michelle. “Extending the Social Justice Mindset: Implications for Scholarly Communication.” College & Research Libraries News 79, no. 4 (2018): 176–79. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.4.176.

Baildon, Michelle, Rhonda Y. Kauffman, Melissa Feiden, Greta Kuriger Suiter, Donald Long, and Jacob Higgins. “Case Study: MIT Libraries Collections: Future of Academic Library Print Collections,” 2017.

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Becker, Jenifer. “Bringing Student Voices into the University Archives: A Student Organization Documentation Initiative Case Study.” In the Library with the Lead Pipe, December 28, 2017. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/bringing-student-voices/.

Berry, Dorothy. “The House Archives Built.” up//root, June 22, 2021. https://www.uproot.space/features/the-house-archives-built.

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Blackburn, Heidi, and Omer Farooq. “LGBTQIA-R: Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Medical Collection at a Public Metropolitan University.” Collection Management 45, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2019.1597799.

Bledsoe, Kara, Danielle Cooper, Roger Schonfeld, and Oya Y. Rieger. “Leading by Diversifying Collections: A Guide for Academic Library Leadership.” Ithaka S+R, November 9, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.317833.

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Blume, Rachel, and Allyson Roylance. “Decolonization in Collection Development: Developing an Authentic Authorship Workflow.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 46, no. 5 (September 2020): 102175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102175.

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Brown, Elspeth H. “Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive.” Archivaria 89 (Spring 2020): 6–32.

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Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria 81 (Spring 2016): 23–43.

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