ALA Members

Announcement: Controlled vocabularies and you: a panel discussion on addressing and redressing terminologies through new and existing vocabularies  – April 29, 2022 2 EST/1 CST/12 MST/ 11 PST / 9 HST

The RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee's Program Planning Group will be hosting a panel on reparative description and controlled vocabularies and thesauri. In this lightly moderated panel, we will hear from people involved in creating or editing/remediating controlled vocabularies: Erica Bruchko, Michelle J. Cronquist, and Staci Ross from the African-American Subject Funnel Project; Lillian Castillo-Speed from the Chicano Thesaurus; Shavonn Matsuda, from Lau Ā Lau Ka ʻIke; and Ryan Hildebrand from the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary Editorial Group's Prejudicial Materials Group.

Speakers will discuss their projects, how these vocabularies or thesauri can be used – especially to redress pejorative or harmful terminology – and their process is for including and choosing among terms. We are soliciting questions for the panelists in advance. 

Please register here.

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Jonathan Tuttle
Cataloger, Published Material
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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Hello Jonathan,

I am a new ALA member, and in my second semester of the MLIS program at Dominican University. I find cataloging interesting and enrolled in a metadata course to build on what I learned in the previous semester. My question is, once a cataloger begins working, how many metadata schemas will they be expected to know?  How many years does it take to feel proficient in cataloging? (I feel I ask this of all my professors or anyone in cataloging) I seem to gravitate toward MARC, Simple Dublin Core, and VRA Core. Other standards have had me stumped.
Thank you in advance.

-Adreanna Tyson
Dominican University

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Adreanna Tyson
Student
Dominican University School of Information Studies
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Original Message:
Sent: Mar 25, 2022 08:33 AM
From: Jonathan Tuttle
Subject: RBMS BSC Upcoming Panel: Controlled vocabularies and you

Announcement: Controlled vocabularies and you: a panel discussion on addressing and redressing terminologies through new and existing vocabularies  – April 29, 2022 2 EST/1 CST/12 MST/ 11 PST / 9 HST

The RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee's Program Planning Group will be hosting a panel on reparative description and controlled vocabularies and thesauri. In this lightly moderated panel, we will hear from people involved in creating or editing/remediating controlled vocabularies: Erica Bruchko, Michelle J. Cronquist, and Staci Ross from the African-American Subject Funnel Project; Lillian Castillo-Speed from the Chicano Thesaurus; Shavonn Matsuda, from Lau Ā Lau Ka ʻIke; and Ryan Hildebrand from the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary Editorial Group's Prejudicial Materials Group.

Speakers will discuss their projects, how these vocabularies or thesauri can be used – especially to redress pejorative or harmful terminology – and their process is for including and choosing among terms. We are soliciting questions for the panelists in advance. 

Please register here.

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Jonathan Tuttle
Cataloger, Published Material
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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