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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Andrea Jamison, "Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Description: Decentering Whiteness in Libraries: A Framework for Inclusive Collection Management Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) serves as a "how to" guide for evaluating and crafting collection development policies that will help create equity in library collections. In this book, Andrea Jamison not only contextualizes the need for inclusive collection development policies but provides user-friendly tables, guides, and sample policies.This episode discusses why the history of inequality in libraries matters to our work today and what we can learn from it; how the Library Bill of Rights can be used as an advocacy tool; how we can evaluate and c...