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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Accessibility (DEIJA): Collection Development & Cataloging

Review Sites

The list of review sites was compiled in part, from a list on the We Need Diverse Books website.

African, African American

American Indian

Book Awards

Disabilities

Islam

LGBTQIA+

Latinx

Multicultural & Social Justice

Bias & Inclusiveness in Library Metadata

This list was compiled from a Guide on Diversity at Penn Libraries: Video, Blog, and Other Resources.

Archives for Black Lives
Can There Be Neutrality in Cataloging? A Conversation Starter
The Cataloging Lab
Creating metadata for equity, diversity, and inclusion
By Karen Smith-Yoshimura | Hanging Together, the OCLC Research blog
Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the OCLC Research Library Partnership Survey
Inclusive Spaces and Practices - University of Colorado-Boulder
LCSH. FAST, and the governance of subject terms
By Andrew K. Pace | OCLC Next
Library of Congress Drops Illegal Alien Subject Heading, Provokes Backlash Legislation
By Lisa Peet | Library Journal
Library of Congress Subject Heading Monthly Proposal Lists: Tentative
Library of Congress Subject Headings Monthly Proposal Lists: Approved

Like Nailing Jell-o to a Wall: The Maintenance of LCSH

Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction
By Emily Drabinski | The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy
Radical Cataloging: Using alternative subject headings locally to promote inclusiveness and diversity
Remember the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued
By Zita Cristina Nunes | Smithsonian.com
Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels

More information can be found in our Inclusive Metadata Practices for Digital Collections tab.

The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System

The Kitchen Sisters Podcast
Molly Schwartz of the Metropolitan New York Library Council and producer of the podcast Library Bytegeist visits Bard High School Early College in Queens to find out about how students there are rebelling against the Dewey Decimal System. She also talks with Greg Cotton (Cornell College), Barbara Fister (Gustavus Adolphus College), and Dorothy Berry (Umbra Search Project).

This project is administered by the South Central Regional Library Council.