Supplemental Collection Equity Award Y2 - University of Southern California - Norris Medical Library

The USC Norris Medical Library (NML) plans to expand our Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine collections and promote these to our patrons and library community. The launch of our display Graphic Medicine collection, based on our original award, has encouraged the library to continue the work implied in this application to build this specialized collection as well as add new, diverse health humanities titles to our existing collection. We found that health humanities is one way to engage our patrons and reach out to curriculum departments across the health campus. We will focus on acquiring titles to fill gaps in our collections related to LGBTQIA+ health, maternal health, mental health and wellness, and social determinants of health. Due to the intersectional nature of many narratives, we will also seek out titles that feature authors and stories from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, particularly African Americans, indigenous peoples, Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), and Latinos.