Schedule

2 - 3pm

The New Library of Congress Immigration Subject Headings: History, Policy, and Implementation

3 - 3:45pm

Business Meeting

3:45-4:15pm

AALL Executive Board Site Visit

Featured Panel: The New Library of Congress Immigration Subject Headings: History, Policy, and Implementation

Late last year, and after many years of controversy, the Library of Congress revised its immigration subject headings to eliminate the terms alien and illegal alien. Please join a panel of academic librarians as they discuss the grassroots movement that advocated for this change, as well as the practical aspects of implementing these revisions at the University of Minnesota. 

Speakers

Tina Gross

Tina is the Metadata and Cataloging Librarians at North Dakota State University. She was an early advocate for updating the Library of Congress immigration subject headings, and drafted the 2016 ALA resolution recommending that the Library of Congress adopt these revisions. She has written extensively on this topic and was featured in the documentary Change the Subject, which is freely available to view through Dartmouth's institutional repository: https://collections.dartmouth.edu/archive/object/change-subject/change-subject-film

Kristi Bergland

Kristi is the Music Metadata Librarian at the University of Minnesota. Working along Stacie Traill and Sarah Yates, she helped plan and implement the revisions to the immigration subject headings at the University of Minnesota.  

Stacie Traill

Stacie is the Discovery and Metadata Systems Lead at the University of Minnesota. She organized and led the group responsible for updating the immigration subject headings at the University of Minnesota.  

Sarah Yates

Sarah is the Cataloging Librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library. She lent her expertise in legal subjects and terminology to the working group that revised the immigration Library of Congress Subject Headings at the University of Minnesota.