Meeting name

Office of Management and Budget Interagency Working Group Closed Listening Session

Meeting location

Online

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

12-15-2022

First page number:

1

Last page number:

14

Abstract

This presentation was part of the OMB Public Listening Sessions on Federal Race and Ethnicity Standards Revision. The presentation addressed the use of racial and ethnic categories and their impact on medical subject headings managed by the National Library of Medicine.

The presentation was on behalf of the Medical Library Association (MLA) comprising more than 400 institutions and 2,500 professional health sciences and medical librarians and a joint collaboration between the Latinx Caucus and the Social Justice and Health Disparities Caucus. Both Weeks and Williams shared information regarding how these medical subject headings impact indexing and searching of biomedical and health equity studies and the importance of addressing problematic terminologies.

Controlled Subject

Controlled vocabularies; Medical librarianship; Subject headings--Medicine

Disciplines

Cataloging and Metadata | Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship | Library and Information Science

File Format

pdf

File Size

726 KB

Language

English

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/


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