Re: [Heb-NACO] [EXT] - FW: Invitation for feedback on RBMS terms for prejudicial works

[Marlene Schiffman via Heb-naco]

I looked at this list. They changed Anti-Semitic literature to Anti-Semitic 
works. I don’t think that makes much of a difference. But we (Jewish people) 
were never happy with the term antisemitism in the first place. Who are these 
“Semites” that people hate? There are Anti-Catholic works. Why can’t we have 
Anti-Jewish works? I am surprised that someone didn’t complain about that. But 
I guess that antisemitism is such an accepted term these days that LC can’t 
change what people call it by a cross reference in their catalog.
It’s like African-American which was written against recently by Morgan 
Freeman. He said it’s not an appropriate term because no other group is 
identified by a continent. But it’s the accepted term. What else would you call 
it? Like antisemitism, that’s what people use. So calling it something else 
would be confusing. Like the term Orthodox Judaism. We (the Orthodox Jewish 
people) don’t like that term either, but that’s what’s used.
I just got the booklet about indigenous people headings. I saw there are so 
many headings like  Indians. I think the Indians don’t mind that term, even 
though they are not from India. They don’t seem to resent it. (They just resent 
sports teams using names like “Warriors” or “Braves.”). So this seems to be a 
Pandora’s box—all these sensitive terms .

Marlene Schiffman
Metadata and Services Department
Gottesman Library
Yeshiva University
500 West 185th Street
New York, N.Y. 10033

Gottesman Library
Room 301
646 592 4276

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Subject: [PCCLIST] Invitation for feedback on RBMS terms for prejudicial works


The Prejudicial Materials Working Group of RBMS’s Controlled Vocabularies 
Editorial Group invites your feedback on approximately 50 proposed new and 
revised terms for the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging 
(RBMS CVRMC). The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial 
Group
 (CVEG), a committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the 
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), maintains RBMS CVRMC.


RBMS CVRMC is a thesaurus of genre and form terms that are specific to the 
needs of the rare materials community. However, the proposed terms, used for 
indexing works that are prejudicial in nature or related to systems of 
oppression, also have wider applicability beyond rare materials. Genre and form 
terms are used to provide controlled description of what resources are (e.g. 
dictionaries, biographies, diaries, correspondence), rather than what they are 
about.


The working group has reviewed extant terminology in the thesaurus to broaden 
terms from “literature” to “works” and revise selected existing scope notes. We 
have also drafted new terms for types of prejudicial works that were not 
previously represented in the thesaurus as well as terms related to colonialism 
and enslavement. The proposals within the Prejudicial works hierarchy are not 
meant to be exhaustive but to provide a scaffold for the future. CVEG 
encourages the community to propose additional narrower terms to further expand 
this section of the thesaurus.


The proposed terms can be viewed as a hierarchical 
list
 and as a comparison of terms with their original 
forms.
 Terms are generally also viewable on 
id.loc.gov,
 but they may have outdated information that has not yet been updated to 
reflect the working group’s most recent decisions. The documents linked above, 
which match what is found in the feedback survey, are the most up-to-date 
version.

[Heb-NACO] FW: Invitation for feedback on RBMS terms for prejudicial works

[Shinohara, Jasmin via Heb-naco]

Of possible interest. --Jasmin

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging  On Behalf 
Of Hoover, Sarah
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 12:15 PM
To: pccl...@listserv.loc.gov
Subject: [PCCLIST] Invitation for feedback on RBMS terms for prejudicial works


The Prejudicial Materials Working Group of RBMS's Controlled Vocabularies 
Editorial Group invites your feedback on approximately 50 proposed new and 
revised terms for the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging 
(RBMS CVRMC). The Controlled Vocabularies Editorial 
Group
 (CVEG), a committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the 
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), maintains RBMS CVRMC.


RBMS CVRMC is a thesaurus of genre and form terms that are specific to the 
needs of the rare materials community. However, the proposed terms, used for 
indexing works that are prejudicial in nature or related to systems of 
oppression, also have wider applicability beyond rare materials. Genre and form 
terms are used to provide controlled description of what resources are (e.g. 
dictionaries, biographies, diaries, correspondence), rather than what they are 
about.


The working group has reviewed extant terminology in the thesaurus to broaden 
terms from "literature" to "works" and revise selected existing scope notes. We 
have also drafted new terms for types of prejudicial works that were not 
previously represented in the thesaurus as well as terms related to colonialism 
and enslavement. The proposals within the Prejudicial works hierarchy are not 
meant to be exhaustive but to provide a scaffold for the future. CVEG 
encourages the community to propose additional narrower terms to further expand 
this section of the thesaurus.


The proposed terms can be viewed as a hierarchical 
list
 and as a comparison of terms with their original 
forms.
 Terms are generally also viewable on 
id.loc.gov,
 but they may have outdated information that has not yet been updated to 
reflect the working group's most recent decisions. The documents linked above, 
which match what is found in the feedback survey, are the most up-to-date 
version.


We encourage you to submit comments, suggestions, and other feedback during the 
public review of the terms, April 17-May 26, 2023. Please submit your feedback 
using this Google form: 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/KByizVqw419tcL3J6__;!!KGKeukY!wQVmcg5qlDM8Z_YD-OYHL6nJjTkvLs6IMWTTPj4iv5WfESKUw78rwQGSFNyhY8i0MmHaAyAw0vHMCYP9g8TQIIri_R0$
 
.
 Note that all fields on the form (including those with identifying 
information) are optional, and the form may be submitted more than once. Each 
term is listed individually with its scope note, variants, and relationships. 
You may submit feedback on as many or as few terms as you would like.


During the review period, members of the Prejudicial Materials Working Group 
will also hold a live public forum via Zoom:

  *   Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 12 pm PST / 1 pm MST / 2 pm CST / 3 pm EST

The session will be 90 minutes and will include a brief presentation on the 
history of the project and an overview of the proposed terms, with plenty of 
time for questions. More details, including connection information, will be 
provided closer to the event.


We hope to get feedback from a wide array of stakeholders, and we encourage you 
to share this announcement with others who may be interested. You can also see 
where we have already distributed the 
announcement.


Best,

Sarah Hoover, on behalf of the Prejudicial Materials Working Group


Sarah Hoover
Special Collections Cataloger
Wilson Special Collections Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
sehoo...@email.unc.edu
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