"Browsing through Bias"

exploring DEI issues in collection management and discovery

LCSH: Songs (High voice) with piano

LCSH: Music by women composers

If you were a composer, would you want to be categorized first by your identity or your profession?

How can we lift up non white heterosexual males without normalizing them?

Sexual minority community [LCSH] v. Queer community

Sexual minority culture [LCSH] v. Queer culture

" 'Sexual minority' attempts to be a politically correct version of 'queer' and avoids the proprietary debate of who gets to use terms that have been reclaimed as expressions of pride rather than shame."

- R. C. Mizzi & G. Walton, "Catchalls and Conundrums: Theorizing “Sexual Minority” in Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts"

Slaves -- United States [LCSH] v. Enslaved people

Fugitive slaves -- United States [LCSH] v. Freedomseekers

Slaveholders [LCSH] v. Enslavers

Celia has changed headings in Archives & Manuscripts with the note "Updated outdated, harmful terminology related to enslavement, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading."

cataloginglab.org

homosaurus.org

Classification

Where would a reader expect to find this book?

What impact does it have when we shelve it elsewhere?

"...a trend in 1971 that has continued to the present, of LC 'more and more...placing black materials within the subject area into which they fall'..." rather than within a single classification

- S. A. Howard & S. A. Knowlton,

"Browsing through Bias", page 80