Building BIPOC Library Collections: Tools and Resources for Library Selectors

Selected Vendors

Amazon Books

• Features:
  • Provides a visual list of related products, 
  • Customers who viewed this item also viewed
  • Editorial reviews
  • About the author
  • Customer reviews
  • Advanced search features
     

• Search best sellers by subject: Social Sciences - Specific Demographics

  • African American Studies

  • Asian American Studies

  • Ethnic Studies

  • Hispanic American Studies

  • Minority Studies

  • Native American Studies

Baker & Taylor

GOBI Library Solutions

• GOBI Library Solutions Features:
  • Weekly customized notifications
  • Book Awards: 
    GOBI includes more than 950 different book award winners from 220 organizations. Several of the new awards are diversity-related: Arab American Book Awards, International Latino Book Awards, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Awards

• GOBI Spotlight Lists
  • Browse or subscribe to lists which provide a highly curated selection of print and ebooks  by category and subject such as Antiracist Reading, and Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice, along with lists covering African American History, Asian American Studies, Chicana and Hispanic Studies, and Indigenous Studies, among others.
  • Spotlight List example:
    
    
     
• Profiling Tags:
  • Profilers evaluate the complete book and pull out relevant and important information beyond the publisher’s summary or what is captured by standard cataloging in order to enhance the bibliographic metadata of a title. Information is captured in 45 different metadata fields
  • The following tags among others help to locate diverse content: Indigenous Studies, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, Black Studies, LGBTQ+, and Multicultural Studies.

Ingram - Edelweiss: Anti-Racist Reading for Adults