The third artifact is a diversity audit on a juvenile fiction book collection. This artifact is important because it addresses how demographics plays a role in how books, materials, and resources are displayed in a library. It is important for a school librarian to provide books that are diversified in the library because it represents diversity to learners. Diversity plays a vital role to learners because the books and materials include people from different ethnic backgrounds, a person’s gender, and how characters are represented on the front cover of books.  Libraries play a major role in addressing culture by the educational resources that are provided in the library. Furthermore, people appreciate others by learning about different cultures in literature.

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AASL/ALA Standards

1.2 Learner Diversity

1.3 Learning Differences

4.2 Information Resources

4.3 Evidence-Based Decision-Making