Modifications to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for use by Manitoba archives

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2016

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The Association for Manitoba Archives has created a database where their members can deposit archival descriptions, in order to provide a central search mechanism for users. The Library of Congress Subject Headings were also added, to provide the members with a controlled subject vocabulary to use in their descriptions. The AMA was quickly notified that the LCSH terminology relating to Indigenous peoples is antiquated and inappropriate in a Canadian and Manitoban context. Changes were made related to the following: the word “Indian”; geographic place being embedded in terms such as “Indians of North America”; changes related to Manitoba peoples specifically; and many miscellaneous changes not part of a larger pattern. New terms for concepts not extant in LCSH were also added. The final document contains 1093 changed or deleted headings and 120 new headings.
أنشأت رابطة أرشيف مانيتوبا The Association for Manitoba Archives قاعدة بيانات يتمكن من خلالها الأعضاء من إيداع وصف المحفوظات Archival descriptions بهدف توفير آلية بحث مركزية للمستخدمين. و أيضا تم إضافة رؤوس موضوعات مكتبة الكونجرس لتزويد الأعضاء برؤوس موضوعات مقيدة لاستخدامها في الوصف . سرعان ما تم تنبيه رابطة أرشيف مانيتوبا بأن المصطلحات الخاصة بالسكان الأصليون المستخدمة في قائمة رؤوس موضوعات مكتبة الكونجرس متقادمة و غير مناسبة للسياق الكندي و المانيتوبي. تم عمل تغييرات فيما يتعلق بالتالي : كلمة هندي "Indian" ؛ مكان جغرافي مرفق لمصطلحات مثل هنود أمريكا الشمالية "Indians of North America" ، تغييرات ذات صلة بشعوب مانيتوبا بشكل خاص، و غيرها من التغييرات المتفرقة التي لا تشكل جزءا من نمط أكبر . أيضا تم إضافة مصطلحات جديدة لمفاهيم غير موجودة في قائمة LCSH . الوثيقة النهائية تحتوي على 1093 رأس موضوع تم تغييره أو حذفه و 120 رأس موضوع جديد.

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1. Giles Martin, “Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” (paper presented at the First Roundtable on Library and Archives Collections and Services of Relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, State Library of of South Australia, Adelaide, 4 May 1995). http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/33841/20030303-0000/www.nla.gov.au/niac/libs/martin.html. 2. Christine Bone, Brett Lougheed, Camille Callison, Janet La France, and Terry Reilly, “Changes to Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to Indigenous Peoples: for use in the AMA MAIN Database”, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5203/ss_ama.main_bon.chr.2015.1. 3. Christine Bone, “The Structure of Indigenous Subject headings in LCSH” (presentation at the Canadian Library Association Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, May, 2013.) 4. Library of Congress. “Assigning and Constructing Subject Headings,” in Subject Headings Manual, module H180, page 2, February 2016. https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeSHM/H0180.pdf. 5. Library and Archives Canada. “Canadian Subject Headings”. Accessed May 6, 2016. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/csh-bin/search/l=0 6. Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, “Aboriginal peoples and communities”. Accessed May 1, 2016. https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100013785/1304467449155. 7. Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Resource Centre, “UBCIC Topical Authority List”, 2014.

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