[Eril-l] Core webinar: Retroactive Addition of Homosaurus: An Evaluation

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Core webinar: Retroactive Addition of Homosaurus: An Evaluation

Date: Monday, December 12, 2022

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.



Description: In recent years, libraries, archives, museums, and other
cultural heritage institutions have begun work towards improving diverse
subject access to their collections. To this end, the inclusion of the
Homosaurus (https://homosaurus.org/) vocabulary in the supported subject
and genre sources for MARC records in OCLC has presented new opportunities
for improving access and discovery to LGBTQ+ materials in particular.

Beginning in Fall 2021, Emory Libraries began collaboration with Backstage
Library Works to test an automated process to make use of this change by
converting Library of Congress Subject headings to Homosaurus terms. The
project aimed to evaluate the results of the Backstage conversion process,
to discuss how useful retroactive addition of Homosaurus terms will be for
Emory users by enhancing the discoverability of LGBTQ resources, and to
offer recommendations for a sustainable, ongoing process of adding
Homosaurus terms to bibliographic records. Assessment of the conversion was
conducted by a diverse team of volunteer librarians and PhD students whose
experience contributed perspectives from technical services, user services,
subject matter practitioners, and collection development.

This webinar will introduce details of the conversion evaluation process,
describe the testing and assessment methods for the conversion results, and
outline the proposed recommendations for the process implementation and
other possible strategies of retroactive addition of Homosaurus terms to
bibliographic records. Though this project is limited to Homosaurus, the
same strategies could be applied to implementing other alternative subject
vocabularies.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this webinar, the attendees will be able to:

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   Design a workflow to assess quality of retrospective automated
   conversion of Library of Congress subject terms to other vocabulary.
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   Develop strategies for retroactive subject enhancement of bibliographic
   records in specific subject areas or for specific populations.
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   Develop and lead a multidisciplinary team in evaluating the results of a
   conversion and metadata suitability, in general

Who should attend?

Catalogers, metadata professionals, technical services managers

Presenters:

Brinna Michael is the Cataloging and Metadata Librarian at Pitts Theology
Library, specializing in non-MARC metadata for digital assets. Since
starting at Pitts in 2019, Michael has been researching methods of
countering bias and racism within digital collections metadata and working
to apply these methods to Pitts’ collections and catalog. Michael has an MS
in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and a BA in Classical Civilizations from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.

Sofia Slutskaya is the Head of Resource Description at Emory
University Woodruff Library. Over the years, Sofia has held a variety of
positions in both public and technical services. Her research interests
include staff training, cataloging print and electronic materials,
e-resource management, and e-book acquisitions.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=641

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*

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