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[Approval] Plan of Action: Promoting Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion through Purchasing Award-Winning Books / Emily Crawford, Carla Davis Cunningham, Noa Kaumeheiwa
2023 NETSL Annual Spring Conference. April 14, 2023.
Temple University Libraries values diversity in its collections and wanted to develop tools and cataloging practices to better identify and collect award-winning works by or about underrepresented groups. Join this session to learn how subject selectors and cataloging librarians worked together, with DEI principles in mind, to curate and improve discoverability of books and highlight diverse voices in a collection.
A DEI Cataloging Audit of a Bibliography / Lisa McColl
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Metadata is becoming more than a tool to facilitate access and retrieval; librarians and other metadata professionals and their users are expecting metadata to perform multiple and diverse purposes and functions: as much as metadata helps connect users to resources, it is expected to appropriately situate resources in relationship to other resources, and within historical and contemporary social contexts. In light of various social justice movements and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, metadata are being viewed as not only representing resources, but as powerful mechanisms for representing ourselves and others, and moreover, as representative of our organizational, professional, and communal values. Despite these increased demands on metadata and the roles we expect it to play, our frameworks for assessing and evaluating metadata quality have not kept pace. This article proposes that there needs to be increased user-centered research to the end of introducing a new ethical dimension to conventional frameworks and/or expanding our definitions of existing assessment criteria.
Using the Cataloguing Code of Ethics Principles for a Retrospective Project Analysis / Angela YonÂ
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 60, issue 1 (2022).
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This study uses the recently released Cataloguing Code of Ethics to evaluate a project which explored how to ethically, efficiently, and accurately add demographic terms for African-American authors to catalog records. By reviewing the project through the lens of these principles the authors were able to examine how their practice was ethical in some ways but could have been improved in others. This helped them identify areas of potential improvement in their current and future research and practice and explore ethical difficulties in cataloging resources with records that are used globally, especially in a linked data environment.