Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-5r2nc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-10T17:05:33.218Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Challenging legacies at the British Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2023

Alan Danskin
Alan Danskin*
Affiliation:
Collection Metadata Standards Manager, British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ, UK Email: [email protected]
Get access

Abstract

The British Library established a corporate Anti-Racism Project (2020) designed to encourage participation via six subgroups, with staff recommendations incorporated into “Enacting Change”, the Library's Race Equality Action Plan (2022). The research and recommendations of the Cataloguing and Metadata subgroup fed into a pilot project proposed as a proof of concept to develop end-to-end workflows, focused on the South Asian Collection and the Caribbean Collection. Work has already been done to align ethical approaches to cataloguing with the Library's values. During the pilot project, new training modules for an ethical approach to metadata are being developed. The outcome will be to remove barriers to access and embed sustainable best practices.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 48 , Special Issue 2: Cataloguing Ethics , April 2023 , pp. 38 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of ARLIS

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Brown, Hugh and Rajakumar, T. Enacting change: rolling out our Race Equality Action Plan. British Library Living Knowledge blog, 26th January 2022 https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2022/01/enacting-change-rolling-out-our-race-equality-action-plan.htmlGoogle Scholar
Brown, Brown and Rajakumar, T. (2022) Enacting Change; an action plan for race equality at the British Library. PowerPoint Presentation. 2022 https://blogs.bl.uk/files/bl-race-equality-action-plan-jan-2022.pdfGoogle Scholar
Chew, Carissa (2022) Inclusive Terminology Project: information and resource pack, https://docs.google.com/document/d/17W4hstjFFlWRdD5gWjx0WDKuqzUHMqat9zyIAjgW_X8/editGoogle Scholar
Morris, Victoria (2020) Automated Language Identification of Bibliographic Resources, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 58:1,1-27, CCQ DOI:10.1080/01639374.2019.1700201 https://bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/articles/6c99ffcb-0003-477d-8a58-64cf8c45ecf5 10.1080/01639374.2019.1700201CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frick, Rachel L., and Proffitt, Merrilee. (2022).Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. https://doi.org/10.25333/wd4b-bs51.Google Scholar