13:53:32 From Ally Hibbard to Everyone: Good afternoon, everyone :) 14:06:25 From Tom Ferren - Core Staff to Everyone: Hi, everyone - I'm a Core staff member. Just a quick note that our Code of Conduct can be found at http://www.ala.org/core/about/statement-of-conduct . Please contact me through private chat or at tferren@ala.org if you experience or see any violations of the Code. 14:06:45 From Tom Ferren - Core Staff to Everyone: If you’re not already a member of this interest group, use this link and join for free: https://connect.ala.org/core/communities/all-core-groups/core-interest-groups. Once you view the IG in ALA Connect and are logged in, you'll see a "join" button in the upper left-hand corner, above the group's name. 14:08:06 From Rhea Taylor to Everyone: Where will the recordings of this meeting and breakout rooms be posted? 14:08:43 From Sofia Slutskaya to Everyone: On the interest group ALA connect page. 14:08:49 From Mohammed butt to Everyone: Hello everyone, please add me to: breakout room 3 (systemic racism in metadata) 14:08:52 From Jennifer Ottinger to Everyone: #4 14:08:57 From Jeannette Ho to Everyone: #4 14:09:00 From Patrick Curtis to Everyone: #3 14:09:08 From Susan Cole to Everyone: #4, please 14:09:10 From Rachel Fischer to Everyone: 2 14:09:14 From Emily Fidelman to Everyone: 2 14:09:18 From Margaret Mering to Everyone: #2 please 14:09:21 From Junjiro Nakatomi to Everyone: 2 14:09:24 From Keiko Suzuki to Everyone: #3 14:09:40 From Ayana Looney to Everyone: Hello! 14:09:50 From Elizabeth Boniface to Everyone: Hi! 14:09:53 From Margaret Joyce to Everyone: Hi Sarah! Too bad we can’t share a coffee this conference. 14:10:02 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: Inshallah next time, my friend! 14:13:03 From Anna Dundas to Everyone: Um, is it just me, or is there just silence? 14:15:05 From Ayana Looney to Everyone: Could you share the slide link with us please? 14:15:52 From Ayana Looney to Everyone: Homosaurus Vocabulary Terms https://homosaurus.org/v2 14:16:10 From Mark Scharff to Everyone: Question 1--better question for systems is "Can we?" Will they be indexed? How will they display or be labeled in a record display? 14:16:19 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: +1 MARK! 14:16:28 From Rocki Strader to Everyone: +1 Mark 14:16:43 From Ayana Looney to Everyone: The library I currently work for doesn't seem to have any interest in using anything other than official LCSH 14:17:15 From Karl Pettitt to Everyone: This would be a great use case for linked data I think. Unfortunately, that isn’t a very immediate solution to our problem. 14:17:37 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: Agreed, Karl! When is that "Linked Data future" going to arrive? 14:17:54 From Mark Scharff to Everyone: If we were to use an alternative thesaurus, we would want access to a database of records that could provide a reference structure, I think (I'm not that high up to make decisions). 14:18:22 From Tina Gross to Everyone: One example of an institution using Homosaurus: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/signalboost/2020/11/23/metadata-for-everyone-inclusive-description-at-the-duke-university-libraries/ 14:18:24 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: A robust local authority database can be quite helpful, if you have the ability 14:20:57 From Shao-Chen Lin to Everyone: Our CCS consortium (Chicago area north and northwest suburbs) with member libraries vote, just decide to include Homosaurus this month. 14:21:01 From Candy Riley to Everyone: For Homosaurus, how do you deal with changes, new headings, and deletes? Would you check the vocabulary periodically and redo pulling out your authority records and reload those to get the latest database? Or are there not that many changes/deletes/new terms to worry about? 14:21:22 From Karl Pettitt to Everyone: Yes Sarah. The Hennepin County Library under Mr. Berman I think serves as a great example. 14:22:07 From Mark Scharff to Everyone: @Cindy--related question to my desire for an authority file. We may not have staffing for manual updating. Again, I'm not the decider in our shop. 14:23:08 From Margaret Joyce to Everyone: Yeah, we oddly got a little pushback from other librarians for changing the illegal aliens subject headings. Probably needs we need to better communicate about these issues to those not in technical services! 14:23:29 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: Mark and Cindy raise really good questions about maintenance. Does anyone know if vendors like Backstage could be able to maintain those? 14:24:05 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: +1 Margaret - communication with external stakeholders is tricky but necessary 14:25:10 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: centralizing project management is very helpful for cleanup projects like these 14:26:14 From Anna Dundas to Everyone: Yes, I've found that we have to be fluid with our local subject headings as things do change regularly. 14:26:36 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: honestly maintaining these authority databases could be a full-time position! 14:27:13 From Wendy Moore to Everyone: We fully integrated to ALMA last year too 14:27:21 From Taylor Parks to Everyone: On August 12th my institution is going to be holding a virtual symposium in memoriam of my former supervisor Walt Walker, who was a key member of the Homosaurus board. There will be speakers from Homosaurus as speakers on a lot of other topics related to queer library issues. Free to attend and all are invited. Barebones site where you can watch updates: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/queercat/ 14:27:21 From Brianna McLaughlin to Everyone: Thankfully, my job is mostly managing our ArchivesSpace instance! We just have 26+ repositories so cleanup is scary! 14:27:30 From Wendy Moore to Everyone: Good question Lauren 14:27:59 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: Thank you for sharing, Taylor! Added it to my calendar! 14:28:21 From Elizabeth Boniface to Everyone: We migrated to Alma last year too. However we still do authority control via Backstage. Alma's authority control can be a bit clunky! 14:29:22 From Wendy Moore to Everyone: Yes. So far, we have not been able to do anything with our authority records 14:31:22 From Anna Dundas to Everyone: I like that option. 14:31:27 From Elizabeth Boniface to Everyone: Great idea. We should implement those as a reference heading. 14:31:44 From Ayana Looney to Everyone: I think Karl needs to host a how-to webinar! 14:31:53 From Elizabeth Boniface to Everyone: Agreed! 14:32:01 From Hsianghui Liu-Spencer to Everyone: Karl: so that is on the discovery side (primo), but not in Alma; Carleton did the same 14:32:07 From Ayana Looney to Everyone: The CA State Library is using Alma, I wish we were doing that! 14:33:01 From Karl Pettitt to Everyone: Hsianghui, the authorized heading will be changed in both the Alma and Primo side. However, the indexing of related terms will continue to bring up the same results regardless of which heading you use. 14:33:24 From Karl Pettitt to Everyone: A coworker and I did a poster if anyone is interested in learning a bit more. 14:33:27 From Brianna McLaughlin to Everyone: Thanks Sarah! 14:33:58 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: Yes we are, Karl!! 14:34:01 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: send that poster! 14:34:44 From Anna Dundas to Everyone: In some cases - we can go out and ask the relevant groups. 14:35:03 From Karl Pettitt to Everyone: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=posterinfo&PosterID=397777 14:35:16 From Anna Dundas to Everyone: I'd like to be able to see what people are searching for and not finding anything. 14:35:22 From Wendy Moore to Everyone: That is a disadvantage of working in Tech 14:36:00 From Margaret Joyce to Everyone: Usually I hear about these from the subject librarians. They tend to be in touch with many of the researchers, so those using the catalog extensively feel comfortable approaching them. 14:36:25 From Mohammed butt to Everyone: most users usually just do key word searches-- if there is a way to track them 14:36:29 From Elizabeth Boniface to Everyone: It's even more challenging working as a cataloger for a vendor. I'm at ProQuest, where we don't have reference or circulation librarians because all our resources are electronic. 14:36:31 From Mohammed butt to Everyone: the terms they are using 14:36:49 From Elizabeth Boniface to Everyone: Thanks for the additional session plug by the way! I completely missed that :). 14:39:08 From Margaret Joyce to Everyone: This reminds me of discussions about attaching names to catalog records, finding aids, and even in one case I know of exhibition labels 14:40:28 From Mohammed butt to Everyone: just having interoperability with the data-- using the same schemas etc more standardization 14:40:54 From Karl Pettitt to Everyone: I hate to say it since many of use spend too much time in these anyway but regular meetings with the various stakeholders is, I think, the best way to make sure we are all working toward the same goals and using similar schema/terminology. 14:43:13 From Sarah Furger to Everyone: @Karl - yes, face-to-face meetings are probably the best way