Cataloguing Code of Ethics

According to the document, "The Cataloguing Code of Ethics was created by the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, consisting of members from cataloguing communities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with the assistance of Working Group members from the international catalo...

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Published in:Technicalities 2024-09, Vol.44 (5), p.19-22
Main Author: Adamich, Tom
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic libraries
Archives & records
Case studies
Cataloging rules
Classification
Committees
Consortia
Ethical standards
Ethics
Librarians
Library associations
Library materials
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Metadata
Microaggressions
Oppression
Resource Description & Access-RDA
Subject heading schemes
Support systems
Technical services
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Summary:According to the document, "The Cataloguing Code of Ethics was created by the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee, consisting of members from cataloguing communities in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with the assistance of Working Group members from the international cataloguing community. According to Elaine Harger, librarians that practice critical librarianship strive to communicate the ways in which libraries and librarians consciously and unconsciously support systems of oppression. Diversity in academic librarianship imparts a commitment to supporting underrepresented librarians and library staff, as well as serving the diverse student bodies at every academic institution.8 What Does The Cataloguing Code of Ethics Represent? Since becoming a librarian in 1991 and spending the majority of my career as a cataloger or technical services librarian, I can say that from my perspective the "Cataloguing Code of Ethics" represents a perspective that the nature of my working life-creating, editing, and maintaining metadata for library materials-had little time to analyze, much less comment in such depth. More importantly, my cataloging work thankfully involved interacting and engaging with other good cataloging and technical services professionals on standards maintenance, subject/classification analysis, and, in the case of my consortia-based work, outlining cataloging policies and procedures that were developed to improve cataloging workflows and, ultimately, benefit the populations that our particular consortium served. [...]I can emphatically say that I never worked, either individually or collectively with others, to undermine the integrity of cataloging rules, subject headings, and/or classification assignments.
ISSN:0272-0884