[Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]- Offensive Language and Library of Congress Subject Headings

[Elena Bianco]

Hi Clare:

I remember we had a really good discussion around this a few months ago and Wade showed us how we could alter the field display in Primo, but there was something about that which led me to decide not to go that route (I can’t remember what it was now – maybe just that it was too complicated for me to figure out or that it was inconsistent or something).

The normalization rule is definitely not a perfect fix, but it feels like it is an easy, efficient way to fix a lot of what we have in our catalog and I can run quarterly jobs to change the rest, which feels much more do-able for me…

Elena

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Clare Bryant
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:50 AM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]- Offensive Language and Library of Congress Subject Headings

I'm interested in this topic too, especially for records we have from the CZ. I started looking at how to configure the way certain fields are displayed in Primo as a workaround, but felt like I was in way over my head!

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:44 AM Elena Bianco <Elena.Bianco at skagit.edu<mailto:Elena.Bianco at skagit.edu>> wrote:
Hi Tracy:

Sure. It’s below.  I’m sure others can make it better. In particular, I had to add a line for “Women illegal aliens” because I noticed the heading wasn’t changing when there was something in front of “illegal aliens” and I was too lazy to try playing around with putting an * before the word “Illegal” to see if that would do the trick…

Here ‘tis:

rule "Replace text Illegal aliens with Undocumented immigrants in 650.a"
when
(TRUE)
then
replaceContents "650.a.Illegal aliens" with "Undocumented immigrants"
replaceContents "160.a.Women illegal aliens" with "Women undocumented immigrants"
end

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Traci Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]- Offensive Language and Library of Congress Subject Headings

Hi Elena,

Thank you for getting back to me. I would like it if you shared the normalization rule with me.

Traci

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Elena Bianco
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:34 AM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>>
Subject: Re: [Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]- Offensive Language and Library of Congress Subject Headings

Hi Traci:

So far we’ve only tackled the “illegal aliens” heading. I created a normalization rule changing it out, and have it run with our import profiles for OCLC, ebooks, etc. However, it doesn’t always work for new electronic materials if I don’t actively import them (like things activated in CZ). I probably could run a job to apply tht rule to those materials, but it’s a bit of a challenge to keep on top of that...

Let me know and I’d be happy to share the normalization rule I created for that.

Elena


From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu<mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>> On Behalf Of Traci Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:07 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL*]-[Wactclc-alma] Offensive Language and Library of Congress Subject Headings

Good Morning All,

I have started looking at offensive subject headings and replacements. Has anyone else been doing this work in Alma/Primo? If so, what offensive LCSHs have you replaced?

Thanks,
Traci

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