The Ethical Description Project Team has been working since 2021 towards supporting the creation of inclusive metadata to provide broader access to UCLA's collections. The Team has created this LibGuide on Ethical Description to help catalogers address questions or issues related to problematic or harmful language that maybe present in catalog records. The Team has also created an Ethical Description Statement demonstrating a commitment towards inclusive access, and a brief Harmful Language Statement that appears in catalog records allowing users to report problematic metadata. The Team researched and established a feedback mechanism and workflows to resolve feedback.
The Project Team has supported the work of the Homosaurus Project at UCLA whose deliverables include adding Homosaurus terms to records in OCLC in order to provide better access to resources on LGBTQ+ topics. A project report on this work is available below.