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Call for Proposals: Faceted Subject Access Interest Group at ALA Core Interest Group Week 2026

  • 1.  Call for Proposals: Faceted Subject Access Interest Group at ALA Core Interest Group Week 2026

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    The Core Faceted Subject Access Interest Group (FSAIG) of the American Library Association is soliciting proposals for presentations at the 2026 Core Interest Group Week. FSAIG's session will be held online on Tuesday, March 3rd at 2 pm Eastern / 1 pm Central / 12 pm Mountain / 11 am Pacific.

     

    Share your experiences using or studying faceted subject access! Submissions may include, but are not limited to the following topics: 

     

    • Training needs and challenges related to subject vocabularies

    • Discovery systems and faceted subject vocabularies

    • Adding faceted vocabularies to legacy data

    • Using tools, programs, or applications to assign faceted vocabularies

    • Linked data integration with faceted subject vocabularies

    • The role of AI and machine learning in faceted subject vocabularies

    • Use of faceted vocabularies in the catalog or other contexts, such as digital repositories

    • Problems or issues discovered when working with different faceted vocabularies

    • Methods for converting or crosswalking pre-coordinated subjects to faceted vocabularies

     

    We are seeking presentations of 15-20 minutes in length.  Please email the proposal title and 100 - 200 word abstract to both co-chairs, Andrea Schuba (aschuba@umd.edu) and Lori Dekydtspotter (lodekydt@iu.edu), by Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 11:59 p.m Hawaii-Aleutian time. You do not need to be a member of the Core Faceted Subject Access Interest Group in order to present.

     

    The Faceted Subject Access Interest Group is charged with discussing the theory and applications related to subject terminology intended for faceted application, including FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), AAT (Art and Architecture Thesaurus), LCGFT (Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms), LCMPT (Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music), LCDGT (Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms) and others.

     

    For more information about FSAIG, visit our ALA Connect space: https://connect.ala.org/core/communities/community-home/digestviewer?communitykey=e7e81a9a-2cfa-43fe-8753-7975786df52c

     

    For more information on Core Interest Group Week and last year's program, visit the ALA Core Interest Group Week page: https://www.ala.org/core/continuing-education/interest-group-week

     

    Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!

     

    Co-chairs of FSAIG

     

    Andrea Schuba

    aschuba@umd.edu

     

    Lori Dekydtspotter

    lodekydt@iu.edu



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    Andrea Schuba
    Monographs Cataloging Librarian
    University of Maryland
    She/Her/Hers
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