35 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 295 — 2018 Figure 1 Eliminating the Caucasian trendline and tweaking the scale on the “percent of population” axis allows us to highlight the growth in diversity that has occurred. (See Figure 2.) All of the underrepresented racial and ethnic groups increase in the period, and the Hispanic portion of the population nearly doubles, albeit from a very small number in 1980. Figure 2