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MLA 2024 Conference
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Friday October 25, 2024 9:20am - 10:10am CDT
Did you know that Minnesota has a radical history of critiquing and improving our cataloging standards? Join our panel discussion to learn more about this history and how it influences the work of critical cataloging today. A trio of St. Kate's MLIS students—Amy Gabbert-Montag, Jaylene Telford, and Charlotte Kadifa—will offer insight into radical catalogers, Sandy Berman and others at Hennepin County Library, based on their ongoing project Voices of the Catalog: A Digital and Oral History of Hennepin County Catalogers. That work continues to inspire activism centered on making the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) more equitable and respectful. Hear from contemporary critical catalogers Violet Fox and Tina Gross about new developments in subject analysis, including collaborative projects to revise LCSH relating to Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ people, and disabled people, as well as the development of alternate vocabularies such as the Zine Subject Thesaurus. The panel discussion will inspire you to continue this important work and find ways to contribute to ongoing efforts to improve our catalogs. We welcome anyone curious about critical cataloging or radical Minnesota history!

Panelists: Violet Fox, Tina Gross, Amy Gabbert-Montag, Jaylene Telford, and Charlotte Kadifa

Moderator: Elissah Becknell
Speakers
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Charlotte Kadifa

Student, St. Catherine University MLIS Program
Charlotte is an MLIS student at St. Catherine University, she is passionate about the use of primary sources and redefining history as storytelling.
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Jaylene Telford

Graduate Student, College of St. Catherine, MLIS Program
Jaylene is a library aide at the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library focusing on digitization.
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Elissah Becknell

Cataloging & Metadata Education Librarian, Minitex
Elissah Becknell is the Cataloging & Metadata Education Librarian at Minitex in the Digital Initiatives & Metadata Education unit. She develops and presents training on library cataloging and metadata standards for library workers across the Midwest. She is also an adjunct instructor... Read More →
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Tina Gross

Metadata Analyst, University of Minnesota
Tina Gross (she/her) is a Metadata Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She served as chair of the CaMMS Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on the LCSH “Illegal aliens” (see its report at https://alair.ala.org/handle/11213/9261) and is a contributor to the recent... Read More →
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Violet Fox

Northwestern University Library
Violet Fox has an MLIS from the University of Washington in Seattle and recently worked at the University of Nevada as the Digital Collections Wikimedian in Residence exposing underrepresented materials in Special Collections and the Archives. She has served as an editor for the Sears... Read More →
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Amy Gabbert-Montag

Assistant Archivist, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Graduate Student in Library and Information Sciences program. Passionate about library promotion, access, and outreach.
Friday October 25, 2024 9:20am - 10:10am CDT
Meeting Room 102

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