From daniel.lovins at yale.edu Thu Jun 17 09:01:20 2021 From: daniel.lovins at yale.edu (Lovins, Daniel) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:01:20 +0000 Subject: [Yulcat-l] RUSA Webinar "Decolonizing the Catalog" Message-ID: Dear colleagues, You are invited to join YUL Technical Services in attending the RUSA Webinar "Decolonizing the Catalog," from 1-2:30 pm on Wednesday, July 7th. Group registration is capped at 20 participants, so try to let me know quickly if you want a spot. I assume a recording will be made available afterward for unlimited viewing. Here's more information about the webinar: [1] Many thanks to Marty Kurth for sponsoring. Daniel [1] "A panel of experts will explore recent efforts to draw attention to and amend harmful language in library records related to the African American experience in the United States. This 90-minute webinar will be divided into three parts: "First, Elizabeth Hobart will discuss the inadequacy of current subject headings related to anti-racism and the difficulties that patrons face in locating anti-racism books in the library catalog. She will draw from her recently published article in C&RL: "Antiracism in the Catalog: An Analysis of Records." Hobart?s discussion will be followed by a presentation that explores one effort to update subject authorities related to African American Studies in conjunction with the Library of Congress. "Staci Ross and Michelle Cronquist, will detail their work as Co-Chairs of the African American Subject Funnel Project. They will describe the process that they go through to update subject headings, and assess the successes and challenges that they?ve faced in getting revisions approved. "The webinar will end with a final discussion of local efforts by the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) to remap problematic, outdated, and offensive LC Subject Headings by ?replacing? these terms in their public catalog/ discovery layer. Kelly Farrell a Program Officer at TRLN will be presenting on this collaborative effort. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during the final 30 minutes of the webinar." See: https://www.ala.org/rusa/decolonizing-catalog-anti-racist-description-practices-authority-records-discovery-layers ___ Daniel Lovins Director of Resource Discovery Services Yale University Library 344 Winchester Ave, Room B146 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 432-2312 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: