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Best Practices for Queer Metadata

June 2024

This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the metadata treatment of queer people, communities, and items in GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections) and other informational institutions. Their work has been supported by over 800 peer reviewers; combined, these groups make up the Queer Metadata Collective (QMDC).

Body-Oriented Cataloging as a Method of Inclusive Gender Representation / Travis Wagner

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This paper reports on findings from qualitative research studying the gendering practices of catalogers working with visual information. Using the findings of this research, the paper argues that systemic cisnormativity directly impacts the way catalogers think about and imagine gender within their work. In response to the findings, the paper theorizes a new approach to cataloging gender referred to as body-oriented description. The paper concludes by offering suggestions on how to engage in body-oriented description and explores its impact on gender inclusive cataloging and inclusive information organization more broadly.

Connexion-Macro-Homosaurus / Wendy Isicson

Github documentation for a macro created for OCLC Connexion for adding MARC formatted 650 \7 Homosaurus terms to bibliographic records.  It also includes the option to add 655_7 Genre term formatting for literature terms.

Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary

This vocabulary is intended to function as a companion to broad subject term vocabularies, such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions are encouraged to use the Homosaurus to support LGBTQ research by enhancing the discoverability of their LGBTQ resources.

Homosaurus Training Resources and FAQ / Orbis Cascade UMSILS and Cataloging Standing Group

Last modified February 1, 2024

“This resource list compiles videos with specific use case scenarios, practical training, and suggestions for the implementation of Homosaurus by a cataloger. This list and the video content will be helpful if you already have a background in cataloging, Alma/Primo, and controlled vocabularies.” – Introduction 

Improving Subject Description of an LGBTQ+ Collection / Joshua Hutchinson, Junjiro Nakatomi

in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 61, Issue 3-4 (July 2023)

“This article summarizes the work done as part of a project to improve subject description of an LGBTQ + collection in the ONE Archives, part of the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries. The project involved adding local subject headings to augment existing Library of Congress Subject Headings. The article describes the steps that the project team took, along with the methods that were rejected. The paper discusses reasons why the team chose their course of action.” – Abstract

LGBTQ+ Identities, Language and the Library Catalog / Brian Dobreski, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, and Karen Snow.  

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in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 58, issue 6 (2020) StatuscolourRedtitlepaywall

This paper examines the addition of “asexuality” to the Library of Congress Subject Headings as a case study from which to examine the critical cataloging movement. Beginning with a review of some of the theoretical and practical issues around subject access for minoritized and marginalized sexualities, this paper then contextualizes, historicizes, and introduces the critical cataloging movement to the literature, situating it within a larger and longer history of radical cataloging. It will define critical cataloging as a social justice-oriented style of radical cataloging that places an emphasis on radical empathy, outreach work, and recognizes the importance of information maintenance and care. This paper introduces the concept of “catalogic warrant” to characterize the process of “reading” the catalog to examine the harm or benefit of terms on users and the wider library community.

Open access institutional repository version: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/25766

Using the Homosaurus in a Public Library Consortium: A Case Study / Rachel K. Fisher

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