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2024 Symposium Information

Event Details

  • Host: UCO Chambers Library

  • Audience: Catalogers, archivists, metadata specialists, library/archives workers or students interested in metadata justice

  • When: June 13, 2024

  • Where: Zoom

  • Cost: Free 

Submit a Proposal

Please don't let this list stop you from submitting your ideas, but we're especially interested in the following:

  • Reparative description for archival materials 

  • Controlled vs. homegrown vocabularies – pros and cons, examples of projects, when and how to develop a local vocabulary 

  • Alternative vocabularies – for example, creative uses of the Homosaurus for materials representing the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.  

  • Institutional challenges, lack of resources, solo work, etc. - challenges, how to work with what you have.  

  • Providing description for audiovisual, oral histories, and/or other non-traditional formats 

  • Staff training for inclusive metadata projects

Submit a Proposal!

Keynote Speaker

The 2024 keynote speaker shall be Treshani Perera of the University of Kentucky. More information coming soon!

Coming Soon

Planning Team

  • 3 members from Metadata & Cataloging department
  • 3 members from Archives & Special Collections department

Questions about the event may be directed to metadata@uco.edu


About

Here at UCO Chambers Library, we are committed to accurately and respectfully describing materials relating to historically overlooked communities. We are continually implementing specific strategies for carrying out this work and have found that sharing and learning with our colleagues has been an essential component. 

Starting summer 2022, we are committed to hosting an annual virtual symposium to connect our library and archives colleagues across the state of Oklahoma for a virtual symposium to discuss how metadata justice can be incorporated into our shared work of creating description and access for library and archival resources. Borrowing from our friends at OU, metadata justice "refers to the use of accurate and appropriate language in metadata systems like library catalogs."

Our intention with this event is to create a space for folks to share their ideas and to create a support network for those interested in this important work in our state's libraries and archives. 

Symposium Proceedings