Collection Equity Award - UAA/APU Consortium Library/Alaska Medical Library

The Collection Equity Outreach Award would allow the UAA/APU Consortium Library to purchase books for the physical and electronic health sciences collection to support the diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Strategic Plan for 2025. Specifically, the Library would purchase materials that support College of Health students to meet the health care needs of the state’s Alaska Native, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian, Black/African American and Pacific Islander demographics. Since College of Health students make up a large number of UAA graduates who then enter Alaska’s health care workforce, this award would strengthen the library’s collection by mirroring the health care community they would employ.