Report of the Prejudicial Materials Working Group - RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group, June 2024
The Prejudicial Materials Working Group (PMWG) of the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies
Editorial Group (CVEG) was convened in the summer of 2020 to review, revise, and generate
new terminology in the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS
CVRMC) that would be useful for indexing works that are prejudicial in nature, or that are the
byproduct of prejudicial and hateful systems and ideologies. This work included review and
revision of scope notes and relationships between terms.
Running The Gauntlet: Lives of Practicing Minority Academic Librarians
Elizabeth Martinez Smith noted the “balancing act” dilemma Black people face as they run the gauntlet of contradictory pressures. She describes the meaning of “running the gauntle…