Colleen Wood

Ingram’s iCurate inClusive is a collection development tool and service that provides a diversity assessment snapshot of a library’s adult, teen, and children’s collections and offers recommendations for immediately filling gaps, while eliminating the time-consuming and laborious process of a manual diversity assessment. It includes a regularly updated proprietary database identifying new titles that reflect the diversity of human experience.

Diversity audits assess representation in library materials, but most examples focus on children’s books. One librarian shares her methods and challenges in tackling adult biographies.