For nearly a century (1933 onwards), catalogers and others have engaged in discussions
over the'ethical'labeling of marginalized subjects in knowledge organization systems (KOS) …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate what metadata elements for access
points currently exist to represent diverse library reading materials, either in libraries or from …

First started in Denmark in 2000, Human Library (HL) has been adopted by different
communities around the world. It is an innovative approach that engages “readers” from the …

Archives are responsible for presenting historical materials to users while also placing them
in context. Historical individuals and their identities pose specific challenges for the archive …

Critical Cataloguing (CritCat) is a descriptor for a variety of critical approaches to the
cataloguing, classification, and creation of metadata for resources 2 in Galleries, Libraries …

Purpose Within standards for bibliographic description, common usage has served as a
prominent design principle, guiding the choice and form of certain names and titles. In …

This study uses the recently released Cataloguing Code of Ethics to evaluate a project
which explored how to ethically, efficiently, and accurately add demographic terms for …

While developments in information technology enable exciting new potentials, they may, in
the process, inadvertently violate important values such as autonomy or privacy …

Authorship is a highly thematic and complex element since it brings aspects related to the
specificity and context of works' production. Considering that contexts and subjects are …

We examine the notion of “person” in cultural heritage settings (libraries, museums, and
archives) and how this notion has implications for their function and purpose. Variations in …