Identify the “trouble”: a pilot project of inclusive metadata practice.

Identify the “trouble”: a pilot project of inclusive metadata practice.

This presentation highlighted the pilot project of UIC library’s inclusive metadata practices. The purpose of the pilot project is to identify the “trouble” language of LGBTQ+ subject headings in the current library catalog. After careful investigation and comparison, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s descriptive audit toolkit was chosen for the pilot project. The original toolkit was designed to find harmful terms in their archive description. To support the goal of our project, we revised the Python script of the toolkit and customized the harmful language term lexicon as well. We also successfully identified a record set within LC call number range HQ12-HQ79 in Alma, our library management system, and exported these records in an XML file. By using the revised toolkit, we can catch a list of sample harmful terms existing in our library catalog and export it in a CSV file with fields for what terms appear, in which record, and where in the subject area. This presentation also showcased the outcome of our pilot project along with the challenges encountered. The next steps of this project were discussed as well.

Li, Mingyan; Cotter, Charlotte; Resendiz, Rosalie

Chinese American Librarians Association

2023-06-24

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