The library profession has worked on issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion for a long time, mostly from a workforce or a service perspective. However more recently extensive assessment of library collections has focused on diversity and inclusion. As a profession we are now working on providing metadata to make content accessible that focuses on diversity and inclusion, and we are also analyzing our collections to see how different perspectives are represented, whether through approval acquisition or through traditional firm ordering. Collection Management has already published many articles on diversity and inclusion and will continue to actively solicit papers that address these matters. In this issue we continue that discussion. Heidi Blackburn and Omer Farooq, in “LGBTQIA-R: Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Medical Collection at a Public Metropolitan University” wanted to create a more inclusive intersectional health and medical collection for their users. They found that not only was it imperative to include faculty with disciplinary knowledge in the selection process, but they also had to proactively search a wide variety of publishing venues, including monitoring small presses and looking for book reviews in journals that focused on LGBTQIA-R issues. On another major topic related to collections, two articles focus on space and the logistics of having to move large parts of the physical collection out of the library. The RMIT University Library in Melbourne, Australia, used the lens and framework of logistics management to maintain a large part of their collection, temporarily housed off-site, as close to browsable as possible while conducting a major renovation of the library. Paul Mercieca, Sue Reynolds, Elsi Hooi and Tanya Bramley, in “Books in Transit: The Logistics of Library Book Movement,” covers the procedures and workflows they developed, and they found that understanding the principles of logistics, combined with the professional staff’s knowledge of collection use, enabled them to select appropriate collections for temporary storage and quickly make these available. In the second article, the University of Oklahoma had more than 2.9 million government documents in one of their main libraries, and after extensive analysis of collection use they decided to move the whole collection to off-site storage. In “The Leviathan: How to Move 2.9 Million Government Documents Offsite” Jeffrey Wilhite and Laura Heygood covers the planning, actual move and lessons learned – from learning from the literature to understanding where any wear and tear on buildings may happen as the move is actually conducted. Collection use is the focus on the next three articles. Elizabeth Weisbrod, Adelia Grabowsky, Shirley Fan and Phillipe Gaillard hypothesized that they could use interlibrary loan statistics and possible journal turnaway reports to predict the future use of “big deal” journal packages for humanities, social science and science disciplines. While Grabowsky et al, found that ILL requests could predict future journal use for science and social science disciplines, it did not work for humanity disciplines. The methodology, results and discussion covered in “Journal Packages: Another Look at Predicting Use” will be very useful for libraries wanting to conduct a similar analysis. Navah Ansari and M. Raza used a different approach to see how well one of their big

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长期以来，图书馆行业一直致力于解决与公平、多样性和包容性相关的问题，主要是从劳动力或服务的角度。然而，最近对图书馆馆藏的广泛评估侧重于多样性和包容性。作为一个专业，我们现在致力于提供元数据，使内容可访问，重点是多样性和包容性，我们也在分析我们的收藏，看看不同的观点是如何表达的，无论是通过批准收购还是通过传统的公司订购。Collection Management 已经发表了许多关于多样性和包容性的文章，并将继续积极征集解决这些问题的论文。在这个问题上，我们继续讨论。海蒂布莱克本和奥默法鲁克，在“LGBTQIA-R：在公立城市大学创建多元化和包容性的医学馆藏”希望为其用户创建更具包容性的交叉健康和医疗馆藏。他们发现，不仅必须让具有学科知识的教师参与选拔过程，而且还必须主动搜索各种出版场所，包括监控小型出版社和在专注于 LGBTQIA-R 的期刊中寻找书评问题。在另一个与馆藏相关的主要话题上，有两篇文章关注空间和必须将大部分实物馆藏移出图书馆的物流。澳大利亚墨尔本的 RMIT 大学图书馆利用物流管理的镜头和框架来维护他们的大部分馆藏，暂时存放在异地，在对图书馆进行重大改造时尽可能接近可浏览。Paul Mercieca、Sue Reynolds、Elsi Hooi 和 Tanya Bramley 在“运输中的图书：图书馆图书运输的物流”中介绍了他们开发的程序和工作流程，他们发现了解物流原则并结合专业人员的知识馆藏用途，使他们能够选择合适的馆藏进行临时存储，并快速提供这些馆藏。在第二篇文章中，俄克拉荷马大学在其主要图书馆之一中拥有超过 290 万份政府文件，在对馆藏使用情况进行广泛分析后，他们决定将整个馆藏移至异地存储。在“利维坦：如何将 290 万份政府文件移出异地”中，Jeffrey Wilhite 和 Laura Heygood 涵盖了规划，实际搬迁和吸取的教训——从文献中学习到了解在实际搬迁时可能发生的建筑物磨损和撕裂的位置。收藏使用是接下来三篇文章的重点。Elizabeth Weisbrod、Adelia Grabowsky、Shirley Fan 和 Phillipe Gaillard 假设他们可以使用馆际互借统计数据和可能的期刊转存报告来预测未来对人文、社会科学和科学学科的“大宗”期刊包的使用。虽然 Grabowsky 等人发现 ILL 请求可以预测未来科学和社会科学学科的期刊使用情况，但它不适用于人文学科。“Journal Packages: Another Look at Predicting Use”中涵盖的方法、结果和讨论对于想要进行类似分析的图书馆非常有用。