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GitHub repository documentation for identifying additional subject headings in Alma catalog records using the LC subject heading “Anti-racism.” This list was then used to search Gobi for new books.
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October 2019
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Metadata recommendations for archival professionals to address racist and anti-Black archival description. The recommendations are intended to combat the racist structures inherent in predominately-White institutions and in archival description of underrepresented and marginalized groups, in particular those in the Black community.
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The British Library established a corporate Anti-Racism Project (2020) designed to encourage participation via six subgroups, with staff recommendations incorporated into “Enacting Change”, the Library's Race Equality Action Plan (2022). The research and recommendations of the Cataloguing and Metadata subgroup fed into a pilot project proposed as a proof of concept to develop end-to-end workflows, focused on the South Asian Collection and the Caribbean Collection. Work has already been done to align ethical approaches to cataloguing with the Library's values. During the pilot project, new training modules for an ethical approach to metadata are being developed. The outcome will be to remove barriers to access and embed sustainable best practices. OPEN ACCESS
Changing the Name of the Tulsa Race Riot to Tulsa Race Massacre in LCSH
Dec. 1, 2021
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Slides from a presentation by two Oklahoma librarians on their work getting the Library of Congress to change the subject heading “Tulsa Race Riot” to “Tulsa Race Massacre.” Includes an introduction showing sources of metadata injustice in LC Subject Headings.
Presented at Ex Libris Users of North America: ELUNA Learns - DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and the University of Central Oklahoma’s Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium.
DARE to say NO: Addressing Outdated and Offensive Classification / J.J. Compton and Anona Earls
July 14, 2022
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Slides from a presentation at the 2022 Metadata Justics in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium which describe a project to reclass offensive and dated terminology of call numbers for materials classified with N and O Cutter numbers for “Negro” and “Oriental.” The project workflow was structured as “DARE” – Decide (to undertake the project), Access (change the metadata), Repair (the label, record, shelving location, etc.), and Eliminate (weed).
From “Riot” to “Massacre” – LC Subject Headings and Metadata Justice / Karen Antell and Jay Shorten
Dec. 1, 2021
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This presentation gives an overview with examples of metadata injustice in LCSH and the success University of Oklahoma librarians had in convincing LC that “Tulsa Race Massacre” is the commonly used phrase, resulting in an update to the LCSH “Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Okla., 1921” to “Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.” Presented at the Ex Libris Users of North America: ELUNA Learns - DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and the University of Central Oklahoma’s Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium.