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Misrepresentation in the Surrogate : Author Critiques of “Indians of North America” Subject Headings Bullard, Julia; Watson, Brian; Purdome, Caitlin
Abstract
The surrogate record for a book in the library catalogue contains subject headings applied on the basis of literary warrant. To assess the extent to which terms like “Indians of North America” are accurate to the content of the items with that label, we invited the items’ creators to critique their surrogate records. In interviews with 38 creators we found consensus against the term “Indians of North America” and identified a periphery of related terms that misrepresent the content of the work, are out of alignment with their scholarly communities, and reproduce settler colonial biases in our library systems.
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Misrepresentation in the Surrogate : Author Critiques of “Indians of North America” Subject Headings
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Taylor & Francis
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2022-06-07
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The surrogate record for a book in the library catalogue contains subject headings
applied on the basis of literary warrant. To assess the extent to which terms like “Indians of
North America” are accurate to the content of the items with that label, we invited the items’
creators to critique their surrogate records. In interviews with 38 creators we found consensus
against the term “Indians of North America” and identified a periphery of related terms that
misrepresent the content of the work, are out of alignment with their scholarly communities, and
reproduce settler colonial biases in our library systems.
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eng
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2022-07-26
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0416394
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Julia Bullard, Brian Watson & Caitlin Purdome (2022) Misrepresentation in the Surrogate: Author Critiques of “Indians of North America” Subject Headings, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
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10.1080/01639374.2022.2090039
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Reviewed
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Faculty; Graduate
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