Abstract
Although laudable strides have been made to highlight and provide access to diverse library materials about and made by traditionally marginalized communities, current approaches are curatorial, non-scalable, and non-systematic. Using a critical design approach, we address how libraries might move beyond curatorial practices with the proposal of a “Critical Catalog” that advocates for diverse materials and discusses the problems and challenges of categorizing identity. The proposed provocative catalog offers the possibility to raise awareness of diverse library materials; expose readers to new and different resources, ideas and cultures; alter reading habits; and ultimately provide more equitable representation by preventing the inadvertent and unintentional erasure of diverse library materials, thus giving a stronger voice to marginalized communities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 23-26 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Advances in Classification Research Online |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2018 |
Event | 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, ASIS and T 2018 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: Nov 10 2018 → Nov 14 2018 |
Keywords
- Diversity
- Knowledge Organization
- Metadata
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Applied Mathematics
- Library and Information Sciences