[DCRM-L] July 2023 OCLC Virtual AskQC Office Hours and Beyond: Please register!

[James,Kate]

Please register<https://help.oclc.org/WorldCat/Metadata_Quality/AskQC/Current_AskQC_office_hours> for the OCLC Virtual AskQC Office Hours July - November 2023.  Topics include ones you have requested in surveys, as well as new things we'd like to share with you.  The topics are:
July: Debiasing Dewey: Righting the past by rewriting the classification
August: Rapid Harm Reduction with Locally Preferred Subjects in WorldCat Discovery
September: Get Informed about Genre/Form Terms
October:  To Be Determined (no link to register yet)
November: MARC Fields for Manuscripts and Archival Collections

The July session, Debiasing Dewey, will be presented by Senior Dewey Editor, Alex Kyrios and editor-in-residence Kathryn Becker.  They will share information on the work underway to address historic biases in Dewey, especially on topics related to LGBTQ people.  July 11 at 10 am (Eastern time) and July 20 at 4 PM Eastern time) are the times/dates.

These free office hours are offered twice each month for anyone who wishes to attend.  Go to this page <https://help.oclc.org/WorldCat/Metadata_Quality/AskQC/Current_AskQC_office_hours> for dates, descriptions of each session, and registration.  Recordings, slides, and Q&A from past office hours are also available<https://help.oclc.org/WorldCat/Metadata_Quality/AskQC/Previous_AskQC_office_hours>.

We look forward to seeing you at these sessions, which all allow plenty of time for Q&A on the presentation topic as well as general cataloging and metadata questions.

Please excuse duplication of this message.

Kate James


Kate James  (she/her/hers)
OCLC * Program Coordinator- Metadata Engagement, Membership & Research Division
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