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in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 60, issue 6-7 (2022)

The surrogate record for a book in the library catalog contains subject headings applied on the basis of literary warrant. To assess the extent to which terms like “Indians of North America” are accurate to the content of the items with that label, we invited the items’ creators to critique their surrogate records. In interviews with 38 creators we found consensus against the term “Indians of North America” and identified a periphery of related terms that misrepresent the content of the work, are out of alignment with their scholarly communities, and reproduce settler colonial biases in our library systems.

Open access institutional repository version: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0416394

Recording Creator Characteristics for Native American Authors: An Analysis of Bibliographic Records / Elizabeth Hobart 

in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 58, issue 1 (2020). StatuscolourRedtitlepaywall

The MARC 21 field 386 in bibliographic records allows catalogers to record demographic terms for creator and contributors. In 2015, the Library of Congress published the first terms in the Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT). The MARC 21 field 386 and LCDGT are promising tools for providing better access to works by Indigenous authors. Currently, however, lack of appropriate terminology in LCDGT can be a barrier to implementation and discovery. This article examines how the MARC 21 field 386 is being used to describe Indigenous authors by finding records using this field, studying terminology used, and considering its efficacy.

Open access institutional repository version: https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/75380f89-1aca-49e0-8a85-e8158c93368e

Subject Headings for Indigenous Peoples / Library of Congress

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in Library Resources & Technical Services. Vol. 67, no. 2 StatuscolourRedtitlepaywall

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