Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Guides and resources

General

• Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture)

Accessibility

• Digital Library Accessibility and Usability Guidelines (DLAUG) to Support Blind and Visually Impaired Users

Harmful Content Statements

• DLG Harmful Content Statement

• DPLA Statement on Potentially Harmful Content

• List of Statements on Bias in Library and Archives Description

Style Guides

• Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia Anti-Racist Description Resources

• P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al. “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help” community-sourced document

• Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

• National Center on Disability and Journalism Disability Language Style Guide

• A Progressive's Style Guide

• A Guide to Conscious Editing at Wilson Special Collections Library (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Thesauri

General

• Keywords

• Cataloging Lab

Demographic

• Chronic Poverty's Glossary of Terms

• Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms

Disability

• Glossary of Disability Terminology

• Language of Disability

• Multiaxial Classification of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders: The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders in Children and Adolescents

• Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities

• Accessibility at Cooper Hewitt

  • Sensory maps

  • Inclusive Design Resources

Ethnographic

• American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus

• Chicano Thesaurus

Indigenous People

• ACCI Classification: Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute Revision of Brian Deer

• Changes to Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to Indigenous Peoples: for use in the AMA MAIN Database

• First Nations, Metis and Inuit – Indigenous Ontologies (FNMIIO)

• Protocols for Native American Archival Materials

LGBTQ+

• Digital Transgender Archive Global Terms

• Digital Transgender Archive Glossary

• GLBT Controlled Vocabularies and Classification Schemes

• Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary

• Queer LCSH

• Sexual Nomenclature : A Thesaurus

Race

• Racial Equity Tools Glossary

Women

• A Women’s Thesaurus : An Index of Language Used to Describe and Locate Information By and About Women.

• The Women's Thesaurus

Webinars

• Conscious Editing Series (Sunshine State Digital Network)

• Every Step You Take: Practical Steps for Inclusive & Reparative Description (Betts Coup, Harvard University, Houghton Library)

• Metadata to Support DEIA (Sponsored by NISO; Speakers: Treshani Perera, Merrilee Proffitt, and Brian M. Watson)

  • Suggested Resources

• Metadata to Support Accessibility (Sponsored by NISO; Speaker: George Kerscher)

  • Suggested Resources