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crl-25342	Jahnke, Lori M.; Tanaka, Kyle; Palazzolo, Christopher A.	Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Structural Barriers to Collections Diversity in Research and College Libraries	2022-03-03	18	.pdf	application/pdf	10473	382	35	Although the current term of choice is collections diversity, concerns with how to rep- resent diverse voices have deep roots in the practice of collection management, and, in some cases, there are codified methods intended to promote the collection of opposing views on controversial ideas.2 The themes in the LIS literature show a general evolution from the idea of collection diversity supporting intellectual freedom and anticensorship to more contempo- rary discussions that tend to focus on the characteristics of authors included in collections.3 Changing social and political climates during the last four decades have likely contributed to this shift, as well as the recognition that factors beyond materials acquisition (such as who is considered a legitimate knowledge producer and trends in higher education and the publish- ing market4) both contribute to and constrain collection development. In their review, only a handful of pub- lications covered the practical issues of collections diversity, such as descriptive metadata and collection assessment, while the majority of publications focused on workforce diver- sity.6 As of July 2020, there were few additions to this body of literature, with the majority of publications focusing on particular topics of diversity, such as race and ethnicity,7 LGBTQ representation,8 Indigenous knowledge and tribal libraries,9 or the role of special collections in addressing diversity.10 Although a systematic approach to conceptualizing and measuring diversity is necessary for managing library collections, there are few examples beyond a handful of studies in the 168 College & Research Libraries March 2022 1980s and 1990s that applied statistical measures of diversity to materials selection and collec- tion	cache/crl-25342.pdf	txt/crl-25342.txt