Work Plan

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Timeframe

Due Date

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Link to Work Plan with Action Items

Phase 2

Create best practice recommendations and guidance for creating inclusive language in library metadata statements

Mid-term

2024

Include components of Inclusive language statements with examples

Include guidance and examples on creating user feedback form

Local workflows will not be addressed

Create a proposal for a UC-wide standing group to implement recommendations for Ethical & Inclusive Metadata in Discovery

Phase 2

2024

Define scope of work

Define representation and experience needed for membership

Document initial deliverables

Determine proposed place in the UC Libraries Governance Structure

Determine decision-making capacity and relationship to existing SILS groups

Create 2024 Final Report

Phase 2

2024

 

Phase 1

Identify needs at each campus with regards to successful implementation of ethical and inclusive metadata practice for description, faceting, subject headings, controlled vocabularies, and authority records in SILS and UC Library Search (Alma and Primo).

Short-term

July 2023

Create survey

Create Communication & Survey Contact list

Survey campuses

Analyze survey results

Define what “successful implementation” means and scope areas of ethical and inclusive metadata practices

Utilize survey when reviewing and updating Work Plan

Create a list of UC reparative and inclusive cataloging local projects and practices that can be shared systemwide. 

Short-term

July 2023

Who can contribute to this space?

Will the site be ongoing?

Who will be responsible for the site following our work?

Categorizing, tagging, etc. needs

Created: UC Campus Reparative and Inclusive Cataloging and Metadata Projects, Policies, and Practices

Create a means of information sharing and communication around local campus efforts

Midterm

October 2023

Determine ongoing responsibility for hosting and maintaining

Determine the scope and policies for information sharing

Created: SILS Community Slack channel #diversity-equity-inclusion

Create a directory of campus personnel with description and discovery-related DEIJA expertise or responsibility (i.e. NACO, SACO, Linked Data, Language, Accessibility)

Midterm

October 2023

Determine ongoing responsibility for hosting and maintaining

Determine full list of areas of need (i.e. add language, non-Latin scripts, etc.)

Create a space for resources and training materials for UC libraries addressing DEIJA in cataloging, metadata and discovery

Short-term

July 2023

Determine criteria and scope

Who can contribute to this space?

Will the site be ongoing?

Who will be responsible for the site following our work?

Created: DEIA Resources and Training for Cataloging, Metadata and Discovery

Identify which groups are responsible for changes at local, national and/or international levels (e.g., local-level, SILS Operations Team, Operations Subteams, Leadership Group)

Midterm

October 2023

Identify potential best practices, policies, vocabulary, etc. that need to be changed

Created: SACO Funnels

Make a list of responsible groups for proposing/approving changes

In Process: Groups Responsible for Policy Change

Hold regular updates with the stakeholders

Throughout

 

Create Communication & Survey Contact list

Communicate throughout with SILS RM, SILS Discovery, CMCKG, SCCMCKG, EDICKG, and local campus diversity committees

Present at SILS Town Hall(s), as needed

Create Phase 1 Final Report

Long-term

December 2023

Release Phase 1 final report December 2023

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