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Anti-racist Library Collection Building: Questions to Consider when Using Collections to Engage with our Community

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Community Engagement

Empowering BIPOC communities to play a role in collection building is essential to building a more just collection, and this requires building reciprocal relationships with these communities, communities that may rightly be suspicious of the library. Creating less white collections will require creating a less white profession, and thus the work also includes doing the work to make librarianship a more diverse profession. Collections and displays must be less white if the library's is to be relevant to BIPOC communities, if our collections are to communicate that BIPOC belong in the library's spaces and that the library's resources were built with BIPOC in mind.

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