Hello and welcome!
This blog takes a deeper dive into the behind-the-scenes work of making University of Washington Libraries metadata more inclusive. We hope to accomplish a few things with this blog:
- Provide transparency and accountability in our work supporting the UW Libraries Critical Cataloging and Archival Description statement on harmful language in catalog records and finding aids
- Uncover the invisible labor that catalogers, metadata specialists, and archivists engage in to make library metadata more inclusive
- Provide fuller information on metadata changes that we can’t make due to system or other limitations
If you encounter language in UW Libraries catalog records, archival finding aids, or digital collections that you find offensive or harmful, or if you have questions about our statement or work, we welcome your feedback via this form or uwlib-critcat@uw.edu.
Links
Feedback Form: UW Libraries Harmful Language in Descriptive Resources
UW Libraries Special Collections
UW Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services