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Retroactive Addition of Homosaurus: An Evaluation
Presenters: Brinna Michael and Sofia Slutskaya
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In recent years, libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions have begun work towards improving diverse subject access to their collections. To this end, the inclusion of the Homosaurus (https://homosaurus.org/ ) vocabulary in the supported subject and genre sources for MARC records in OCLC has presented new opportunities for improving access and discovery to LGBTQ+ materials in particular.
Beginning in Fall 2021, Emory Libraries began collaboration with Backstage Library Works to test an automated process to make use of this change by converting Library of Congress Subject headings to Homosaurus terms. The project aimed to evaluate the results of the Backstage conversion process, to discuss how useful retroactive addition of Homosaurus terms will be for Emory users by enhancing the discoverability of LGBTQ resources, and to offer recommendations for a sustainable, ongoing process of adding Homosaurus terms to bibliographic records. Assessment of the conversion was conducted by a diverse team of volunteer librarians and PhD students whose experience contributed perspectives from technical services, user services, subject matter practitioners, and collection development.
This webinar will introduce details of the conversion evaluation process, describe the testing and assessment methods for the conversion results, and outline the proposed recommendations for the process implementation and other possible strategies of retroactive addition of Homosaurus terms to bibliographic records. Though this project is limited to Homosaurus, the same strategies could be applied to implementing other alternative subject vocabularies.
Presented on December 12, 2022
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