Location
Libraries 128
Start Date
18-5-2023 2:15 PM
End Date
18-5-2023 3:05 PM
Description
In Fall 2022, the IU Southeast Library won an institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grant to conduct research on a patron driven acquisitions project carried out in a 300-level education course for preservice learning teachers. Leveraging the grant funds and the objectives of the 300-level course, we embedded an acquisition project into the course that used the Diverse Book Finder (DBF) as a teaching and selection tool. 29 students enrolled in the course were tasked with using the Diverse Book Finder to select 5 picture books that would be purchased and added to the library collection. This session will cover the Diverse Book Finder as an assessment and acquisition tool, how the IU Southeast Library worked with faculty to embed this project into their curriculum, and the details and results of this project, including what students' responses to the pretest and posttest survey reveal. Finally, we will also address the potential this project has uncovered for potential embedding more patron driven acquisitions projects into the IU Southeast curriculum.
Included in
Collection Development and Management Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
Patron Driven DEI Acquisitions: Using education students and the Diverse Book Finder to diversify a children's picture book collection
Libraries 128
In Fall 2022, the IU Southeast Library won an institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grant to conduct research on a patron driven acquisitions project carried out in a 300-level education course for preservice learning teachers. Leveraging the grant funds and the objectives of the 300-level course, we embedded an acquisition project into the course that used the Diverse Book Finder (DBF) as a teaching and selection tool. 29 students enrolled in the course were tasked with using the Diverse Book Finder to select 5 picture books that would be purchased and added to the library collection. This session will cover the Diverse Book Finder as an assessment and acquisition tool, how the IU Southeast Library worked with faculty to embed this project into their curriculum, and the details and results of this project, including what students' responses to the pretest and posttest survey reveal. Finally, we will also address the potential this project has uncovered for potential embedding more patron driven acquisitions projects into the IU Southeast curriculum.