Cataloging-Related ARLIS/NA Conference Sessions
This year’s ARLIS/NA Annual Conference takes place in-person in Chicago, Illinois from April 5-9, and there are several sessions of interest to art cataloging and metadata professionals.
If you are unable to attend in-person, the Cataloging Advisory Committee Meeting takes place virtually on Thursday, March 31 at 1pm Central Time: https://sched.co/xYI3
If you’ll be in Chicago, take a look at the following sessions:
- 4/7, 8:30 a.m.: Confronting Racist or Derogatory Titles in Digitized Photographs: https://sched.co/xYI3
- 4/8, 8:30 a.m.: Lightning Talks Session 3, ft. “Our Artists, Our Culture: Critically Cataloging the Black Arts Movement”: https://sched.co/v5Np
- 4/8, 10:30 a.m.: Confronting the Myth of Neutrality: Addressing Bias and Inclusion in Cataloging and Classification in Art Libraries: https://sched.co/uwUJ
- 4/8, 3 p.m.: Points of Connection: Using Wikidata for Art Information: https://sched.co/uwUn
Cataloging News Roundup
RBMS Controlled Vocabularies, via ARLIS-L:
“On behalf of the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group, we are happy to announce the completion of the beta version of the newly integrated RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS CVRMC), and we are inviting your feedback. RBMS CVRMC is a linked data thesaurus that combines the former RBMS Thesauri (Genre, Binding, Type, Printing and Publishing, Paper, and Provenance) into a single resource with a redesigned structure. It is hosted by the Library of Congress Linked Data Service at https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv.html
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We encourage you to submit comments, suggestions, and other feedback during the public review of the text, March 25-May 20, 2022. Please submit your feedback using this Google form: https://forms.gle/hndFhN8hgbHyDNVNA “
LCSH Change: Slaves to Enslaved Persons, via PCC Listserv:
“In September 2021, a proposal was submitted to change Slaves to Enslaved persons. The Library of Congress took the proposal under advisement for more research and evaluation, and determined that the proposal would be re-considered and a decision would be made in March 2022.
During that time, the original proposer, Rowena Griem of Yale University, worked to improve the change heading proposal and compile a list of all the potentially impacted headings. The SACO African American Subject Funnel, led by Lauren Reno for this project, assisted her. They also agreed to help with research when the time came to make the related proposals. The Library of Congress would like to take this opportunity to thank these catalogers for their work in moving this forward; their assistance has been and will continue to be essential.
Following the period of additional research and internal evaluation, the Library of Congress will support the change of the heading Slaves to Enslaved persons. The March 2022 editorial meeting will be an opportunity to discuss the full outcome of the decision on all related headings and develop a more complete plan for the full project. Due to the large volume of headings associated with the heading change, a special list for Slaves/Enslaved persons will be issued.”