Recent Initiatives at Library of Parliament for Truth and Reconciliation
Explore recent initiatives at the Library of Parliament focusing on Truth and Reconciliation, including updates on Indigenous representation in subject headings, adopting new standards for collections, and local decision-making processes. Learn about the changes made to controlled vocabularies and the efforts to align with Indigenous preferences in cataloging practices.
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TRUTH & TRUTH & RECONCILIATION RECONCILIATION: : RECENT INITIATIVES AT RECENT INITIATIVES AT THE LIBRARY OF THE LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT PARLIAMENT Laura May and Tim Yale Information and Collection, Library of Parliament Concordia University Library Research Forum 2024
Recent initiatives at the Library of Parliament related to Truth and Reconciliation: Collection development and Discovery Independent Indigenous news sources Indigenous language learning collection Collection description Adopting the new standard: policy aspects Implementing the new standard: technical aspects 2 2
Indigenous representation in subject headings: a (very) brief timeline 2019: LAC begins reviewing CSH, having found that the language of CSH often did not reflect the terminology preferred by First Nation, Inuit and M tis Nation communities in Canada. 2021: LAC begins process of revising CSH to describe material with Indigenous content. 2022: Library of Congress began a project to revise terms that refer to Indigenous people. 2023: May update from RVM includes first changes made to that controlled vocabulary with a focus on: First Nations or Native peoples as subject headings Removal of precision of parentheses for subject headings of Nation names Subject headings about the Atikamekw Nation 3 3
Collection description: adopting the new standard Library of Parliament uses three controlled vocabularies: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) R pertoire de vedettes-mati re (RVM) Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) Changes of Note to CSH: Replacing the term Native with Indigenous Native peoples Canada (CSH) becomes Indigenous peoples Canada (LCSH) Replacing the term Indian with First Nations Indian reservations Canada (LCSH) becomes First Nations reservations (CSH) RVM updates began in May 2023. 4 4
Local decisions Local authority files vs. Community Zone records Ex Libris: Alma RVM authority records hosted locally in Institution Zone. Local authority records are preferred over Community Zone authority records. CSH changes are being made in stages through regular updates. Partial updates made to some categories: inconsistent headings in the catalogue. Updated or created temporary authority files in anticipation forthcoming CSH updates. 5 5
Collection description: implementing the new standard Created a hybrid version of CSH vocabulary Transformed 14,000+ records with 90,000+ headings using Normalization rules Managed re-indexing with Authority control task list Qualitative clean up from Cataloguing librarians 6 6
Next steps: Information Description team Cataloguing documents in Indigenous languages Discovery collection devoted to reconciliation New sources of book cover images and author information 7 7
