Prioritizing the People: Developing a Method for Evaluating a Collection’s Description of Diverse Populations
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出版日期 | Published online: 01 Aug 2022 |
內容 | Following the long overdue cancellation of the Library of Congress Subject Heading "Illegal alien" many libraries are assessing options for remediating problematic descriptive language in their catalogs. This paper presents a method of evaluating LCSH corresponding to historically marginalized populations—women, African Americans, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQIA + people—by measuring cooccurrences of LCSH and Library of Congress Classifications (LCC) across a library's collection. Starting with a sample of 468,100 MARC records, data was extracted with Python then organized and graphed with R. The results offer a holistic perspective of descriptive language assigned to these populations and produced data that can help guide collection development and local subject description policies. |
刊名 | Cataloging & Classification Quarterly |
卷期 | 60:6-7 |
頁數 | 560-582 |
關鍵字 | Library of Congress; Subject Headings(LCSH); Library of Congress Classification; subject cataloging; catalog maintenance; case studies |
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