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Body-Oriented Cataloging as a Method of Inclusive Gender Representation / Travis Wagner
in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 60, issue 6-7 (2022)
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LGBTQ+ Identities, Language and the Library Catalog / Brian Dobreski, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, and Karen Snow.
ALA Core Cataloging Norms Interest Group presentation at Core Interest Group Week , March 2023
Records in the library catalog often contain terminology representing identities, especially those of authors, audiences, and subjects. Accurately and sensitively capturing the identities of individuals or groups of people using controlled vocabularies can be fraught with difficulty, however, leading catalogers to assign subject terminology that may be harmful, offensive, and/or incorrect. A recent study conducted by the presenters sought to further explore the pitfalls and potentials for controlled vocabularies in representing a diverse and often marginalized group of identities, those of LGBTQ+ individuals and groups. This study examined the coverage and overlap of LGBTQ+ identity terms in three controlled vocabularies: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT), and Homosaurus, a new linked data vocabulary of LGBTQ + terminology designed to represent identities and concepts from the perspective of this community. This presentation will provide the results of that study, as well as preliminary data of a follow-up study that includes interview data with members of the LGBTQ+ community about the language they use to find LGBTQ+ resources in library catalogs.
Recording (Begins at 2:10)
Slides (downloadable from Core Cataloging Norms Interest Group Connect site)
Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources / The Trans Metadata Collective
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2023 NETSL Annual Spring Conference, April 2023
The Trans Metadata Collective is a group of dozens of cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the description and classification of trans and gender diverse people, subjects, and resources in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections (GLAMS) and other information systems. The Collective’s primary goal was to develop a set of concrete, actionable best practices, which was collaboratively authored, reviewed, and released by a smaller subset of the collective as *Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources*
Sex Negativity & Anti-Queerness in Library of Congress Classification: History, Structure, & System / Rhonda Kauffman, Tiffany Henry, Anatasia Chu
NETSL 2023 NETSL Annual Spring Conference, April 2023
Drawing from a published article by the presenters (June 2022), this presentation digs into sex negativity and anti-queerness in Library of Congress Classification schedule HQ, “The Family. Marriage. Women.” It explores how the presenters identified these issues in the underlying structure of the schedule and its history, using some key illuminating examples.
“There was Sex but no Sexuality*:” Critical Cataloging and the Classification of Asexuality in LCSH / Brian M. Watson
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in Library Resources & Technical Services. Vol. 67, no. 1 (January 2023)
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