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Title: Decolonizing the Catalog: RUSA Webinar Explores Avenues for Antiracist Description | American Libraries

URL: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/11/01/decolonizing-the-catalog/

Collection: Replacement of "Illegal aliens" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings

Description: This blog post recaps four librarians' experiences of attending a RUSA webinar entitled “Decolonizing the Catalog: Antiracist Description Practices from Authority Records to Discovery Layers.” This panel of four librarians, each of whom have worked to promote inclusive language in library catalogs, provides examples of academic libarians' challenges experienced when confronted with racist and biased language within their library catalogs and their processes for amending this language.

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Subject:   Cataloging Bias-free language Subject headings, Library of Congress Librarians

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