Highlighting Diverse Collections: Furthering DEI Initiatives at UT Libraries

Highlighting Diverse Collections (HDC) is an Instagram series that originated in 2020 as a way to bring awareness to the depth and value of the over 10 million resources available at UT Libraries (UTL). All collections strive to reflect the diverse populations UTL serves and this series aims to spotlight several different communities each month and includes topics such as Autism Awareness, Muharram, Humanitarian Mapping and more. The goal behind pushing this series out through social media was to further broaden our audience and with the successful levels of engagement, it has now evolved into a regularly featured series on the UTL Instagram and Facebook page. This two part project involved working in collaboration with the Arts, Humanities & Global Studies Engagement Team (AHGS) to take on a project management role in the content creation process. The libguide is intended to serve as a bibliography style archive of published posts that will allow users to directly access materials from the posts in the UTL catalog. Ultimately, the goal was to establish a role and set of best practices that would allow a future student to take over working with the AHGS Team and continue facilitating the HDC series.