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Creating a Diverse
Collection

“When some are excluded or lack the knowledge, income, equipment,
or training necessary to participate fully in public discourse, they must
overcome obstacles to access in order to ensure fairness. In other
words, fairness also demands remedies to redress historic injustices
that have prevented or diminished access in the first place: for, just as
there can be no fairness without equality, there can be none without
justice.” -American Library Association

CACE Instructional Leadership B-31: Principles of educational equity and diversity, and how to provide
equitable access to the school, the curriculum, and available programmatic supports to all groups of
students and their parents/guardians:

• School libraries empower the individual child.
• School libraries support literacy and lifelong learning.
• School libraries encourage critical thinking.
• School libraries build community.
• School libraries teach empathy.
• School libraries are the great equalizer. They serve children of

every age, education level, income level, ethnicity and physical
ability.