Ethical questions in name authority control

Title:

ISBN:

9781634000543

Publication:

Sacramento, CA : Library Juice Press, 2019.

Physical Description:

vii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

Self-determination and privacy. "My zine life is my private life" : reframing authority control from detective work to an ethic of care / Violet B. Fox and Kelly Swickard -- Identity theft : how authority control undermines women's agency / Michelle M. Kazmer -- When public identity meets personal privacy : ethical considerations for the use of dates of birth in name authority records for living persons / Jennifer M. Martin -- Demographic characteristics in personal name authority records and the ethics of a person-centered approach to name authority control / Thomas A. Whittaker -- Impacts of colonialism. This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you : Native American name authorities at the University of Denver / Erin Elzi and Katherine M. Crowe -- Cataloging Kurdistan : imagining liberated geographies / Heather K. Hughes -- Gender variance and transgender identities. Who asked you? : consent, self-determination, and the Report of the PCC Ad Hoc Task Group on Gender in Name Authority Records / Kalani Adolpho -- Free to be... only he or she : overcoming obstacles to accurately recording gender identity in a highly-gendered language / Ahava Cohen -- Violent cis-tems : identifying transphobia in Library of Congress name authority records / Hale Polebaum-Freeman -- Accuracy of identity information and name authority records / Naomi Shiraishi -- Finding "Miss Betty" Joe Carstairs : the ethics of unpacking misnaming in cataloging and biographical practices / Travis L. Wagner -- Challenges to the digital scholarly record. From personal to corporate and from names to titles : the challenges of Iranian scholars with scientific publications / Sholeh Arastoopoor and Fatemeh Ahmadinasab -- Barriers to ethical linked data name authority modeling / Ruth Kitchin Tillman -- The tale of three service types for researcher identifiers and the ethical implication on access to information and representation of authors / Anchalee Punigabutra-Roberts -- Emancipatory collaborations. What's in a name? Archives for Black lives in Philadelphia and the impact of names and name authorities in archival description / Alexis A. Antracoli and Katy Rawdon -- Authority work as outreach / Tina Gross and Violet B. Fox -- Creating multilingual and multiscript name authority records : a case study in meeting the needs of Inuit language speakers in Nunavut / Carol Rigby and Riel Gallant -- An indigenous global perspective of policy, procedures and best practice / Naomi R. Caldwell.

Abstract:

"Explores and develops a framework for the ethical practice of name authority control, through theoretical and practice-based essays, stories, content analyses, and other methods"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Name authority records (Information retrieval)

Cataloging -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Name authority records (Information retrieval) (OCoLC)fst01032339

Ethik

Katalogisierung

Normdatei

Local Subject:

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE COLLECTION

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION COLLECTION

Added Author:

Sandberg, Jane, 1989-

Available:

Library	Call Number	Material Type	Status
Searching... State Library of Oregon	025.3222 Ethic	4-Week Loan	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Catalogers hold very specific types of power when they describe people, families, and corporate bodies. When creating a personal name authority record, for example, catalogers determine the authorized name by which an individual will be known, then identify a few characteristics of the individual that distinguish them from others, while balancing their judgment with respect for the individual's self-concept and management of their public identity. This is a powerful position, and that power must be exercised ethically.

As name authority control moves toward an identity management model, catalogers are taking on new roles, authority data is used in innovative ways, and libraries increasingly interact with non-library datasets and name disambiguation algorithms. During this transition, it is imperative that the library community reflect on the ethical questions that arise from its historical and emerging practices.

This collection explores and develops this framework through theoretical and practice-based essays, stories, interviews, taxonomies, content analyses, and other methods. As it explores ethical questions in a variety of settings, this book will deepen readers' understanding of names, identities, and library catalogs. The chapters from this volume are intended to spark conversations among librarians, archivists, library technologists, library administrators, and library and information science students.

Jane Sandberg received her MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, where she coordinates library cataloging and systems. Her research interests include linked data approaches to name authority control, queer and trans local histories, open source software in rural communities, and historical dimensions of online transgender activism.

Summary:

"Explores and develops a framework for the ethical practice of name authority control, through theoretical and practice-based essays, stories, content analyses, and other methods"--