Misrepresentation in the Surrogate: Author Critiques of "Indians of North America" Subject Headings

The surrogate record for a book in the library catalog 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 cr...

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Published inCataloging & classification quarterly Vol. 60; no. 6-7; pp. 599 - 619
Main Authors Bullard, Julia, Watson, Brian, Purdome, Caitlin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Routledge 03.10.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
"Indians of North America"
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Library catalogs
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
Misrepresentation
Native North Americans
qualitative research
settler colonialism
subject cataloging
Subject heading schemes
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ISSN0163-9374
1544-4554
DOI10.1080/01639374.2022.2090039

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Summary:The surrogate record for a book in the library catalog 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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ISSN:0163-9374
1544-4554
DOI:10.1080/01639374.2022.2090039