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Conscious Editing And Metadata Enhancement For Library Collections, Sai Deng, Jeanne Piascik
Conscious Editing And Metadata Enhancement For Library Collections, Sai Deng, Jeanne Piascik
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
To promote Diversity and Inclusion and conscious metadata editing, the librarians in Cataloging Services at the University of Central Florida collaborated with several departments for the audit and reparative editing of digital collections related to sensitive materials, and enhancement and enrichment of subject headings for physical collections on biographies.
Working with Digital Initiatives, and Special Collections & University Archives, the cataloging librarians have been auditing and editing metadata for The African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection, 1794-2010, The Civil War Collection, and PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements. For instance, an inclusion statement has been added to …
Spark A Conversation On Metadata Inclusiveness, Sai Deng
Spark A Conversation On Metadata Inclusiveness, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This session introduces the context for metadata inclusiveness and presents some of the efforts the speaker has been involved with, including helped create the Inclusive Metadata & Conscious Editing Resources List as a member of the Sunshine State Digital Network (SSDN) Metadata Working Group, and organized “Embracing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Library Cataloging” for the ALA Core Interest Group Week in Spring 2021. It focuses on describing cases, examples and other resources from the SSDN Resources List, so as to give librarians and staff members in Technical Services at the University Central Florida Libraries a better understanding and …
School Safety In Rural Settings, Daniel W. Eadens, Larry Walker, Vasily Yurin
School Safety In Rural Settings, Daniel W. Eadens, Larry Walker, Vasily Yurin
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Extreme violence is in our communities and sometimes flows into our schools. Read no further than the local newspapers if you want to see the impact on campus: physical violence, serious injury, suicide, mental crises, and threats with deadly weapon. In fact, the first documented school shooting in this country occurred in the year 1764 in rural Pennsylvania (Keenan & Rush, 2016). Unfortunately, shootings continue to plague our society and occur on rural school campuses today. Are rural schools safe? Is there a way to better predict school violence so it can be prevented? What kind of rural schools are …