December 2022 | Diverse Collection Support Toolkit

To celebrate the close of the calendar year, we're doing something a little different with the toolkit this month! We're looking to each other, and all of you, to crowd-source some ideas to kick-start your front-end audits next year.

Here's what we'd like: we'd love to hear from you about publications and spaces where you discover new authors, especially underrepresented voices or voices that might fly under the mainstream publishing radar. It could be:

We've been sharing many resources along these lines in the toolkit this year, but we suspect you know of many others.

Please feel free to comment on this document by Friday, January 13th and post a link to the resource as well as a sentence or two of why you love it, why you find it useful, etc. And if you'd like to share more than one, that's great too! Project managers will be weighing in with our ideas in the next couple of days.