Michigan libraries begin to address what they call systemic bias in collections

How to address systemic racism within libraries and library organization system and description is an interesting, complex, ongoing topic within libraries. Two of the three of us working on our Reparative Cataloging project for CMU libraries were interviewed recently and included in a WCMU article/recording. I was quoted in the news article. Unfortunately I was incorrectly cited as Melissa Matyn. This is pretty funny as my last name is usually mispelled or mispronounced, not my first. Laura Thompson and Melissa James and I began the project in 2021. I've worked on bias and racism in Clarke collection description for years before that. Here's the story and audio. https://radio.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2022-04-20/a-living-document-michigan-libraries-begin-to-address-what-they-call-systemic-bias-in-collections A living document: Michigan libraries begin to address what they call systemic bias in collections | WCMU Public Radio Indigenous officials say examples of racism are pervasive in the nearly 200-year-old Dewey Decimal System. It’s one of the most widely used systems in the United States, but it’s based on a Eurocentric structure. radio.wcmu.org