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New England Technical Services Librarians 2023 Annual Spring Conference presentation, April 14, 2023
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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.
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ALA Core Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group presentation, March 2023
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In the Fall 2022 semester Lehigh University Libraries DE&I Technical Services team embarked on a cataloging audit of the bibliography for the course "Diversity and Multicultural Perspectives" taught by Professor Dr. Floyd D. Beachum at Lehigh University. The team used this microcosm of resources on systemic racism in the education system of the United States to:
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Following the long overdue cancellation of the Library of Congress Subject Heading “Illegal alien” many libraries are assessing options for remediating problematic description in their catalogs. This presentation will describe a method of evaluating Library of Congress subject headings corresponding to historically marginalized populations—women, African Americans, indigenous peoples, and LGBTQIA+ people—by measuring cooccurrences of Library of Congress Subject Headings and Library of Congress Classifications across a library’s collections. The results offer a holistic perspective of description of these populations and produced data that can help guide collection development and resource description decisions.
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in 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.
Open access institutional repository version: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpml/145/