Collection and Vendor Relationships: Diversity Evaluation and Communication

Abstract

More libraries are assessing collections to improve diversity and better meet the needs of the populations served. The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is one of those libraries doing just that and is taking it one step further by challenging vendors to do the same. The presentation highlighted specific events that initiated the project, the objectives within the project, challenges that presented themselves and the solutions created, details of communicating with vendors around diversity needs, the impact on the collection, and identified future steps.

Keywords:

• Collection assessment
• collection development
• DEI
• diversity
• vendor
• vendor relationship

Acknowledgement

This report would not have been possible without the original work of Elizabeth Speer in Communicating with vendors in support of DEI collection evaluations (2022) published in Online Searcher.