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Ethical Description
This guide provides catalogers and metadata practitioners interested in ethical description with questions to consider, examples, and resources to incorporate into their metadata work.
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Title Element
Contributor Element
Notes Element
Rights/Access Element
Access Points: Personal Names
Access Points: Corporate Bodies
Access Points: Subject Headings
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
LC Subjects Heading Manual instruction sheet
H 1922 Offensive Words
University of Toronto's project on masking headings:
Cora Coady, Tina Lu, Jordan Pedersen, "Truth Talking in the Library: A Thematic Investigation of Statements on Bias in Libraries and Archives."
https://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum/files/2022/2022_Pedersen.pdf
Github page for subject remappings:
https://github.com/trln/marc-to-argot/blob/main/lib/translation_maps/shared/subject_heading_remappings.yaml
John Mark Ockerbloom, "Categorizing people without marginalizing them," Everybody's Libraries
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/04/29/categorizing-people-without-marginalizing-them/
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