DEI in libraries

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1. Criticisms have focused on the biases and limits of what?
   • answer: representation
   • context: al cataloging is the LCSH. Criticisms have focused on the biases and limits of representation in the systems to serve diverse populations in areas of

   • answer: ethical metadata
   • context: ethical metadata; bias in cataloging; diversity; equity; inclusion; linked data http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4125-2397 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7514-0
2. How are librarians' skill sets honed?
   • answer: through ongoing interaction with diverse groups
   • context: resentation of library materials shapes their skill sets and approaches to instruction which are honed through ongoing interaction with diverse groups
3. How can diverse communities find new modes of access to materials?
   • answer: through user-recommended cross-references
   • context: erse communities find new modes of access to materials through user-recommended cross-references, but minoritized people can develop relationships and

   • answer: expanded metadata fields
   • context: 17. http://sched.co/ABGn Lyon, Meghan. Alongside the content, expanded metadata fields based on local needs and vocabularies including "traditional k
4. How do you identify trans-related content and metadata?
   • answer: through regular assessment
   • context: xtual information for trans and gender diverse resources. ● Identify trans-related content and metadata through regular assessment and prioritize for
5. How long has bias in LCSH borne fruit?
   • answer: three decades
   • context: trated attention to the issue of bias in LCSH has borne fruit in the three decades since the publication of [Prejudices and Antipathies], and the libr
6. How many core professional values did librarians identify in a survey of information workers?
   • answer: patron service
   • context: ost identified value among academic librarians in North America was patron service. Regarding the LCSH, Steven A. Knowlton reports on the changes imp
7. Indigenous diversity precludes what?
   • answer: generalization
   • context: on at the Xwi7xwa Library. Although Indigenous diversity precludes generalization, knowledge in Indigenous contexts is frequently characterized a s w
8. Minoritized people can develop relationships and mutual support through what?
   • answer: discussion and sharing
   • context: erials through user-recommended cross-references, but minoritized people can develop relationships and mutual support through discussion and sharing.
9. Not every work that uses LGBT includes what?
   • answer: gender diversity
   • context: s sexuality and gender, essentially erasing trans and gender-diverse people. Not every work that uses LGBT includes gender diversity.15 If a resource
10. The traditional notion of permanent metadata can also be a hindrance in creating what?
    • answer: diverse metadata
    • context: l notion of permanent metadata can also be a hindrance in creating diverse metadata describing a creator. This opens the door for the authority of de
11. What are the most salient properties to the community?
    • answer: service to the client, (2) equality of access, (3) information literacy, (4) intellectual freedom, (5) preservation of the cultural record, (6) literacy, (7) professional neutrality, (8) diversity of opinion, (9) confidentiality of records, (10) cultural diversity, and (11) copyright and intellectual property rights
    • context: service to the client, (2) equality of access, (3) information literacy, (4) intellectual freedom, (5) preservation of the cultural record, (6) literacy, (7) professional neutrality, (8) diversity of opinion, (9) confidentiality of records, (10) cultural diversity, and (11) copyright and intellectual property rights
12. What are these interrelated dual dimensions?
    • answer: gender, sexuality, race, age, ability, ethnicity, language, and religion
    • context: gender, sexuality, race, age, ability, ethnicity, language, and religion.43 Patrick Keilty specifically addresses how subject classification and ontol
13. What can also be a hindrance in creating diverse metadata describing a creator?
    • answer: The traditional notion of permanent metadata
    • context: diverse communities and from diverse populations."31 The traditional notion of permanent metadata can also be a hindrance in creating diverse metadata

    • answer: biases
    • context: ect access, many ethical issues and problems arise as to how to address biases, whether catalogers should label creators, the logistics of how to do s
14. What do critics of LCSH focus on?
    • answer: the biases and limits of representation
    • context: cal cataloging is the LCSH. Criticisms have focused on the biases and limits of representation in the systems to serve diverse populations in areas o
15. What do different cultures and languages have terms for?
    • answer: genders
    • context: munities and subjects ○ Different cultures and languages have terms for genders that may not translate into the primary language of description. ● Co
16. What has long characterized the efforts of libraries to arrange their collections of books?
    • answer: The neat division of knowledge into tidy silos of scholarly disciplines
    • context: in the library community.1 Introduction The neat division of knowledge into tidy silos of scholarly disciplines, each with its own section of a knowle

    • answer: equal access to all users
    • context: ents as hopeful milestones in the continuing effort to provide equal access to all users."40 The Library of Congress continues to be amenable to revis
17. What is a good place to start?
    • answer: headings
    • context: h trans and gender diverse terminology. A good place to start is with headings that follow an established pattern such as those in the Arts, Culture
18. What is required to represent diverse library reading materials?
    • answer: Core Values
    • context: Library Association's "Core Values" of diversity and social responsibility, as called for by Roberts and Noble (2016), is to provide insight into the
19. What is subject to political pressure from the U.S. Congress?
    • answer: single controlled vocabulary
    • context: abularies be used to supplement LCSH to reduce reliance on a single controlled vocabulary that is subject to political pressure from the U.S. Congress
20. What is the core value of the American Library Association?
    • answer: diversity and social responsibility
    • context: Library Association's "Core Values" of diversity and social responsibility, as called for by Roberts and Noble (2016), is to provide insight into the

    • answer: to provide access to library resources for diverse communities and from diverse populations
    • context: Association (ALA) core value "to provide access to library resources for diverse communities and from diverse populations."31 The traditional notion o
21. What is the most identified value of a library?
    • answer: patron service
    • context: ost identified value among academic librarians in North America was patron service. Regarding the LCSH, Steven A. Knowlton reports on the changes imp

    • answer: service to the client
    • context: lowing 11 core professional values identified by librarians: (1) service to the client, (2) equality of access, (3) information literacy, (4) intellec
22. What is the opportunity for inclusivity and diversity in authority work for identification of creators and authors?
    • answer: Outside of subject headings and classifications
    • context: ing, social tagging, and user-sourced knowledge."52 Outside of subject headings and classifications, there is also the opportunity for inclusivity and

    • answer: user studies with underrepresented and diverse racial and cultural groups
    • context: her exploration and could benefit from user studies with underrepresented and diverse racial and cultural groups to address biases and incorporate inc
23. What is the purpose of vocabularies created by subculture and non-majority communities?
    • answer: to address the inclusion of diverse description by gender, occupation, ethnicity, geographic region, audience, and age
    • context: abularies exist to address the inclusion of diverse description by gender, occupation, ethnicity, geographic region, audience, and age, but most are n
24. What was the most identified value among academic librarians in North America?
    • answer: patron service
    • context: ost identified value among academic librarians in North America was patron service. Regarding the LCSH, Steven A. Knowlton reports on the changes imp
25. Where can you find the Diversity Style Guide?
    • answer: https://www.diversitystyleguide.com/
    • context: dgt.html (Demographic Group Terms) Diversity Style Guide https://www.diversitystyleguide.com/ https://www.diversitystyleguide.com/topic-glossaries/rac
26. Who creates metadata about trans and gender diverse people, communities, resources and topics?
    • answer: workers in cultural heritage institutions
    • context: s This document is designed to serve as a resource for workers in cultural heritage institutions who create metadata about trans and gender diverse pe

    • answer: Trans Metadata Collective
    • context: ument is the result of a year of work and collaboration by the Trans Metadata Collective (TMDC; https://transmetadatacollective.org/), a group of doze
27. Whose professional activities shape their skill sets and approaches to instruction?
    • answer: librarians
    • context: er identified the following 11 core professional values identified by librarians: (1) service to the client, (2) equality of access, (3) information l

    • answer: librarians
    • context: ctives in widely diverse social, political and economic spheres. The librarians' professional activities of selection, acquisition, and representatio
28. Who were not consulted during the creation of categories?
    • answer: Asian and Asian American communities
    • context: ces colonial terminology in general and specifically for Asian and Asian American communities who were not consulted during the creation of categories
29. Why does scope note not apply to trans and gender diverse people?
    • answer: it talks about individuals presenting themselves as something they're not through concealing aspects of their identity
    • context: se people since it talks about individuals presenting themselves as something they're not through concealing aspects of their identity.19 However, unt

    • answer: it conflates sexuality and gender
    • context: actory because it's not a commonly used phrase and because it conflates sexuality and gender, essentially erasing trans and gender-diverse people. No
30. Women and people of non-traditional genders are examples of what?
    • answer: traditionally marginalized communities
    • context: nderrepresented populations. Specifically, people from traditionally marginalized communities in the USA, including women and people of non-tradition
31. Criticisms have focused on what?
    • answer: the biases and limits of representation
    • context: cal cataloging is the LCSH. Criticisms have focused on the biases and limits of representation in the systems to serve diverse populations in areas o
32. Feinberg pushes back against what concept?
    • answer: a universal and "ideal definition
    • context: nformation systems, and pushes back against the concept of a universal and "ideal definition."64 This acknowledgement of the decisions made in the des
33. How are marginalized peoples repeatedly segregated and ghettoized?
    • answer: institutional cataloging and classification practices
    • context: e repeatedly segregated and "ghettoized" through institutional cataloging and classification practices.13 Most commonly, these practices consist of (1
34. In recent years, ethical debate has focused on issues of what?
    • answer: neutrality, inclusivity, self-determination, and privacy
    • context: years, ethical debate has focused on issues of neutrality, inclusivity, self-determination, and privacy. Interrogating the ways that subject headings

    • answer: social responsibility
    • context: This sort of behavior is not neutrality, and in fact conflicts with one of the libraries' core values and ethics of social responsibility.19 Following

    • answer: equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives
    • context: equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives. In "Principles and Concepts in Information Ethics," Burgess (2019, 1) asserts that "if, figuratively sp

    • answer: gender and sexuality
    • context: of gender and sexuality are being challenged and explored as never before (Diamond 2020), including in many institutions of higher education, where di
35. Libraries and institutions in the twenty-first century have embedded what principles into their values and strategic goals?
    • answer: diversity, equity, and inclusion
    • context: and institutions in the twenty-first century have embedded diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into their values and strategic goals. Aborigi

    • answer: social justice
    • context: n library and information science practice, research, and pedagogy, social justice as a core value in libraries also encompasses cataloging values for

    • answer: age, appearance, empowerment, ethnicity and race and nationality, gender and sex and sexuality, and health
    • context: age, appearance, empowerment, ethnicity and race and nationality, gender and sex and sexuality, and health. Program presented at the American Library
36. People working in libraries and archives have been increasingly focusing on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in what?
    • answer: linked data
    • context: ; ethical metadata; bias in cataloging; diversity; equity; inclusion; linked data http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4125-2397 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7514

    • answer: their descriptive practices
    • context: eir energies on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their descriptive practices, including remediating legacy data and addressing biased lan

    • answer: library technical services
    • context: tegration and inclusion of queer subjects? Diversity, inclusion, and social justice in library technical services. The relationship between archival
37. Tillman notes that despite the potential of linked data, what does Tillman note?
    • answer: incorporating unheard voices
    • context: data, Tillman notes that Despite the potential it offers for incorporating unheard voices, a multiplicity of representation or viewpoints does not inh
38. To modify practices and services through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion, what does often it require?
    • answer: workshops
    • context: rchivist and other staff who work with photographs. Following the guidance gleaned from many workshops on the best practices for equitable, inclusive

    • answer: remediating legacy data and addressing biased language
    • context: usion in their descriptive practices, including remediating legacy data and addressing biased language. This paper will focus on the inclusion of gen
39. We hold an inclusive view of what term?
    • answer: Aboriginal
    • context: ity, and inclusion principles into their values and strategic goals. Aboriginal is used as an inclusive category for all Indigenous people in Canada,

    • answer: accessibility
    • context: cate ourselves on evolving language and practices of inclusivity and accessibility. People working in libraries and archives have been increasingly f

    • answer: reparative description
    • context: discuss reparative description and cataloging standards as important efforts to make descriptive practices in GLAM institutions more inclusive and exa

    • answer: descriptive
    • context: he Technical Services Department has long been committed to inclusive descriptive practices, but recently its staff has undertaken a more formalized e

    • answer: inclusive language
    • context: them as we expand our understanding of "inclusive language" is a worthy endeavor. While attempting to be inclusive, this is actually to the detriment
40. What are practices to be more ethical and inclusive?
    • answer: archival descriptive
    • context: processing born-digital and audiovisual materials and improving archival descriptive practices to be more ethical and inclusive. 8 See Dominique Lus

    • answer: Cataloging ethics; Cataloguing Code of Ethics; ethical metadata; bias in cataloging; diversity; equity
    • context: Cataloging ethics; Cataloguing Code of Ethics; ethical metadata; bias in cataloging; diversity; equity; inclusion; linked data http://orcid.org/0000-0
41. What are resources about gender inclusive of?
    • answer: trans and gender diverse identities and experiences
    • context: ity, resources about gender that are inclusive of trans and gender diverse identities and experiences. Bibliographies & Other Sources Consulted Archi

    • answer: open knowledge projects
    • context: . This paper will focus on the inclusion of gender identity in open knowledge projects. Having internal policies or adhering to external group polic

    • answer: trans and gender diverse identities and experiences
    • context: dentity ● gender (if the resource is inclusive of trans and gender diverse identities and experiences in a significant way) The best practices about n
42. What are some of the biases in cataloging?
    • answer: all standards
    • context: been excluded by white supremacist, patriarchal practices. However, all standards are biased; we will approach them critically and advocate to make c

    • answer: personal, institutional, and standards levels
    • context: es for inclusive metadata and awareness of biases at personal, institutional, and standards levels. They recommend providing additional access throug

    • answer: diversity; equity; inclusion
    • context: oguing Code of Ethics; ethical metadata; bias in cataloging; diversity; equity; inclusion; linked data http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4125-2397 http://orc

    • answer: race-related materials
    • context: outdated, incomplete, or offensive description, particularly in race-related materials. 7 This work of creating more inclusive descriptions extends t
43. What could benefit from user studies with underrepresented and diverse racial and cultural groups?
    • answer: characteristics of creators
    • context: characteristics of creators requires further exploration and could benefit from user studies with underrepresented and diverse racial and cultural gro

    • answer: incorporating unheard voices
    • context: data, Tillman notes that Despite the potential it offers for incorporating unheard voices, a multiplicity of representation or viewpoints does not inh
44. What creates barriers to access for those most likely to use and see themselves represented in a particular collection?
    • answer: biases
    • context: opic in ethical cataloging is the LCSH. Criticisms have focused on the biases and limits of representation in the systems to serve diverse population
45. What did Dominique Luster say about conscious language?
    • answer: "conscious language = kind language + compassionate language + mindful language + empowering language + respectful language + inclusive language
    • context: n: "conscious language = kind language + compassionate language + mindful language + empowering language + respectful language + inclusive language."
46. What did many people indicate they were including this information to highlight?
    • answer: marginalized groups or inequities in collections
    • context: they were including this information to highlight marginalized groups or inequities in collections, that there were so few responses indicating that

    • answer: under-represented histories
    • context: clusive, equitable description is crucial in bringing to light under-represented histories. At the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    • answer: potentially offensive language
    • context: o the mainstream. 10 Other strategies to call attention to potentially offensive language are to include a general alert in the collection inventory,

    • answer: racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural background
    • context: racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural background… Also index under name of ethnic group." C a t a l o g u e a n d I n d e x htt
47. What does a cataloger need to assess to ensure subject headings are used by the groups being described?
    • answer: mirror terms
    • context: taloger should assess if subject headings for groups being described mirror terms are used by those groups. They then recommend the addition of other

    • answer: structured metadata
    • context: eavily on good description subject headings, tags, narrative, and structured metadata - created by catalogers and other information professionals; fur
48. What does conscious language take into account?
    • answer: the many intersections of identities humans can occupy
    • context: guage + respectful language + inclusive language It takes into account the many intersections of identities humans can occupy: ability and disability,
49. What does respectful language + inclusive language take into account?
    • answer: conscious language
    • context: re ethical and inclusive. 8 See Dominique Luster's formulation: "conscious language = kind language + compassionate language + mindful language + emp
50. What do we commit to continually educate ourselves on?
    • answer: evolving language and practices of inclusivity and accessibility
    • context: commit to continually educate ourselves on evolving language and practices of inclusivity and accessibility. People working in libraries and archives
51. What is a core value in libraries?
    • answer: social justice
    • context: n library and information science practice, research, and pedagogy, social justice as a core value in libraries also encompasses cataloging values for

    • answer: diversity, equity, and inclusion principles
    • context: nstitutions in the twenty-first century have embedded diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into their values and strategic goals. Aboriginal i
52. What is the purpose of the cataloging lab?
    • answer: a crowdsourcing website for the drafting of proposals to revise and create new LCSHs for greater inclusivity
    • context: he Cataloging Lab is a crowdsourcing website for the drafting of proposals to revise and create new LCSHs for greater inclusivity. While there may be

    • answer: inclusivity
    • context: Over this time, it has become more and more accepted that inclusivity is a necessary value for cataloging because a library and its catalog cannot eff
53. What term could be problematic and not inclusive of non-Western and Indigenous gender identities and gender systems?
    • answer: transgender
    • context: ld be a colonial imposition" (2019, 114), so even the use of the term transgender could be problematic and not inclusive of non-Western and Indigenous

    • answer: queer
    • context: s how subject classification and ontologies can find it difficult to account for queer phenomena.44 Keilty concludes that this is largely a product of
54. Who explores barriers to ethical name modeling in linked data practices?
    • answer: Ruth Kitchin Tillman
    • context: f the design, adding context for users in Feinberg's approach.65 Ruth Kitchin Tillman explores barriers to ethical name modeling in linked data practi
55. Who founded the Cataloging Lab?
    • answer: Violet Fox
    • context: changes to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).22 Founded by Violet Fox in 2018, the Cataloging Lab is a crowdsourcing website for the drafti
56. Orienting the proposal process around literary warrant introduces what two major issues?
    • answer: one regarding the size and scale of proposed changes and another around its reliance on the publishing industry for equity and representation
    • context: ues, one regarding the size and scale of proposed changes and another around its reliance on the publishing industry for equity and representation. T

    • answer: equity, and inclusion in their descriptive practices
    • context: equity, and inclusion in their descriptive practices, including remediating legacy data and addressing biased language. These are just a few examples
57. Professionals should focus on what?
    • answer: equity
    • context: objectivity as a notion is rigid and that professionals should focus on equity not equality in that they should consider the context of the topic and

    • answer: issues of diversity
    • context: lossary 43 References Adler, Melissa. People working in libraries and archives have been increasingly focusing their energies on issues of diversity,
58. What are librarians in slow libraries focused on?
    • answer: relationship-building
    • context: organization systems. Workers in slow libraries are focused on relationship-building, deeply understanding and meeting patron needs, and providing e
59. What is an uncomfortable situation for librarians invested in working toward gender equity?
    • answer: observing these kinds of misrepresentations
    • context: librarians invested in working toward gender equity, observing these kinds of misrepresentations within an information system that many trained catal
60. What is the focus of librarians in slow libraries?
    • answer: relationship-building
    • context: organization systems. Workers in slow libraries are focused on relationship-building, deeply understanding and meeting patron needs, and providing e
61. What must catalogers also acknowledge?
    • answer: none of these representations are neutral
    • context: ke and Schoonmaker assert that catalogers must also acknowledge that none of these representations are neutral, and there is always either an implicit

    • answer: privilege and responsibility
    • context: ractices. Bair states, "Catalogers recognize and accept the privilege and responsibility that is ours as gatekeepers of infor180 JOURNAL OF LIBRARY A

    • answer: Ethical missteps
    • context: cprof:oso/9780195316872.001.0001/acprof-9780195316872-chapter-4 32 Ethical missteps in description can be summarized as three behaviors to be aware of
62. What was the purpose of bringing awareness of inequities in collections?
    • answer: to promote social justice
    • context: to inequities within their collections or bringing awareness of inequities in general to promote social justice. It was also curious, given how many

    • answer: to highlight marginalized groups
    • context: people indicated that they were including this information to highlight marginalized groups or inequities in collections, that there were so few respo