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The ad hoc working group from the Decolonizing College Catalogues Subcommittee met on December 6. The group suggests the Network Zone should be updated with colleges who have added subject terms as well as kept the LC subject headings with the expectation colleges will have the ability to suppress the display of fully indexed terms. This will require configuration and maintenance of a list of exact offensive terms in each Primo VE instance. Moving forward it is recommended that all colleges use this approach as part of their cataloguing practice along with the other recommendations coming out of the Decolonize College Catalogues Subcommittees' CLO Report such as a create messaging to indicate to users that college libraries are aware of offensive language in our Library of Congress subject headings and are actively engaged in finding solutions, to further update other inappropriate Library of Congress subject headings, and build a consortial authority file.
Recommended Actions
The Metadata and Cataloguing Subcommittee recommends the CLSP follow the Decolonizing College Catalogues Subcommittee suggestion.
Action by Date: | OCLS to confirm w/ colleges using this approach and update the NZ base file by May 20, 2022. |
Dependencies: | All colleges need to be informed of this approach. |
Expected Outcome
Striking a balance when sharing of master records between improved user experience and minimal impact to existing workflows while we move into a new shared system will benefit all colleges while they focus priorities on other recommendations from the Decolonize College Catalogues Subcommittee’s research report. Of particularly note is the building and maintaining a Consortial consortial authority file.