Northeast Ohio Regional Library System - Event Information - Northeast Ohio Regional Library System
Event Name:
Cataloging is not neutral: improving equity and inclusion in resource description [Archive]
Competency:
Cataloging and Technical Services
Description:
Learning Objectives:
Participants will engage critically with the structural and cultural biases in controlled vocabularies and classification systems.
Participants will examine specific examples of exclusionary language and problematic arrangement of resources used in libraries today.
Participants will learn about measures libraries have taken to put critical cataloging into practice.
Presenter:Andrew Clark is the Discovery and Metadata Librarian for Simmons University Library. His professional interests include critical cataloging, user experience with discovery systems, and zine cataloging.
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