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

Tue Apr 18 09:39:57 EDT 2023

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
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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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ala.org/acrl/rbms/acr-rbmcveg__;!!IBzWLUs!SdmBSHgeoYSWGjYtorbkZ5sHcj6oYDw_db03zPUbAdL0NxcpRYmI_65BEP2-RfXdBzAqcI96_d8oEJ8vF4pr-ElB3L8$> (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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1A7UtWUQdw0XVFyTCQQngEqLMvJbKzLiO8VlSRng6YHY/edit?usp=sharing__;!!IBzWLUs!SdmBSHgeoYSWGjYtorbkZ5sHcj6oYDw_db03zPUbAdL0NxcpRYmI_65BEP2-RfXdBzAqcI96_d8oEJ8vF4prc0osUe4$> and as a comparison of terms with their original forms<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1CMgrZdYCu_gKFl7kq51lm_pygrJ0h1E2iPiBJWmaoHA/edit?usp=sharing__;!!IBzWLUs!SdmBSHgeoYSWGjYtorbkZ5sHcj6oYDw_db03zPUbAdL0NxcpRYmI_65BEP2-RfXdBzAqcI96_d8oEJ8vF4prB5Xte_g$>. Terms are generally also viewable on id.loc.gov<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/id.loc.gov/vocabulary/rbmscv.html__;!!IBzWLUs!SdmBSHgeoYSWGjYtorbkZ5sHcj6oYDw_db03zPUbAdL0NxcpRYmI_65BEP2-RfXdBzAqcI96_d8oEJ8vF4prvQ-IcJI$>, 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!0MdGKYBRKlRc9xCxXnllr3G4Zwjlj0EUWJDUJdz5DMPtDb3N56-3bYWdGx-N_4N6zt1WOattdtrNmU_j-1V0tA$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/forms.gle/KByizVqw419tcL3J6__;!!IBzWLUs!SdmBSHgeoYSWGjYtorbkZ5sHcj6oYDw_db03zPUbAdL0NxcpRYmI_65BEP2-RfXdBzAqcI96_d8oEJ8vF4pr3-ovLbw$>. 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1hAMuuW_Rk2EjUvYEbA4IXI9eGJWQ2IwWwb11yo5GY-8/edit*bookmark=id.ocgmr04bhrpo__;Iw!!IBzWLUs!SdmBSHgeoYSWGjYtorbkZ5sHcj6oYDw_db03zPUbAdL0NxcpRYmI_65BEP2-RfXdBzAqcI96_d8oEJ8vF4prHV8oRBY$>.

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
sehoover at email.unc.edu<mailto:sehoover at email.unc.edu>
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