July 16, 2025

from

01:00 PM

– 02:00 PM ET

Book Talk: “Ways Of Knowing: Oral Histories On The Worlds Words Create” With Editors Amanda Belantara And Emily Drabinski

Online

Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create sits at the heart of the library project, shaping how materials are described and organized and how they can be retrieved. It presents unique and timely oral histories of alternative thesauri created in response to the inadequacies and biases embedded within widely adopted standards in libraries. The set of oral histories included in the volume document the Chicano Thesaurus, A Women’s Thesaurus, and Homosaurus. The book and accompanying digital files constitute the first primary source of its kind and a unique contribution to the history of metadata work in libraries.

Join us as we discuss these oral histories with the book’s editors: Amanda Belantara, Assistant Curator at New York University Libraries; and Emily Drabinski, Associate Professor and librarian at the City University of New York.

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