Diversity Audits

Ensure your digital collection is reflecting and serving your diverse community with an OverDrive Diversity Audit. This powerful tool is available on-demand at zero cost to our partners and offers important insights into a library’s digital collection.

Audit Lists

How does a Diversity Audit work?


Using BISAC subject headings and OverDrive-created Recommended Lists, we can provide partners a better view of the diversity of their digital library as well as help identify opportunities to expand areas of the collection. Our Recommended Lists are continuously updated, making it important for libraries to add diversity audits to their annual collection development goals.

Importance of Diversity Audits


Helps libraries understand how much of their current digital collection is of a diverse nature

Inform next steps in collection development

OverDrive librarians can help identify best access models for libraries to maximize efficiency

Sample of OverDrive Recommended Lists


To view the recommended lists below, you must be signed into Marketplace.

Stonewall Book Award Cumulative List

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Asian & Asian Diaspora Authors

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Transgender and Nonbinary Voices

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To view the recommended lists below, you must sign into Marketplace.

Contact your OverDrive Account Manager to get started with your diversity audit!

Free diversity audit