This is by no means a comprehensive list, but a starter list of literature that concerns diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in library cataloging and metadata. Open access links provided where possible.
Davidian, C., & Deng, S. (2021). Embracing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Library Cataloging. Technical Services Quarterly, 38(3), 315–320. https://doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2021.1934315
Drabinski, E. (2008). Teaching the Radical Catalog. In K. R. Roberto (Ed.), Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front (pp. 198–205). McFarland. http://www.emilydrabinski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/drabinski_radcat.pdf
Drabinski, E. (2013). Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction. Library Quarterly, 83(2), 94–111. https://doi.org/10.1086/669547
Hobart, E. (2020). Ethical Cataloging and Racism in Special Collections. In M. Kandiuk (Ed.), Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation (pp. 203–221). Library Juice Press. https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/2016f4ad-5208-4c13-b922-ce1718502025/downloads/4776
Kauffman, R. Y., & Anderson, M. S. (2019). Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services. In S. Marien (Ed.), Library Technical Services: Adapting to a Changing Environment (pp. 213-236). Purdue University Press. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=libr_pubs
Adler, M. (2016). The Case for Taxonomic Reparations. Knowledge Organization, 43(8), 630–640. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2016-8-630
Adler, M. (2017). Classification Along the Color Line: Excavating Racism in the Stacks. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(1). https://journals.litwinbooks.com//index.php/jclis/article/view/17
Adler, M. (2017). Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge. Fordham University Press.
Adler, M., & Harper, L. M. (2018). Race and Ethnicity in Classification Systems: Teaching Knowledge Organization from a Social Justice Perspective. Library Trends, 67(1), 52–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0025
Cherry, A., & Mukunda, K. (2015). A Case Study in Indigenous Classification: Revisiting and Reviving the Brian Deer Scheme. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53(5–6), 548–567. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1008717
Duarte, M. E., Belarde-Lewis, M., & A. (2015). Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53(5–6), 677–702. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1018396
Dudley, M. Q. (2017). A Library Matter of Genocide: The Library of Congress and the Historiography of the Native American Holocaust. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2017.8.2.9
Higgins, C. (2012). Library of Congress Classification: Teddy Roosevelt’s World in Numbers? Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 50(4), 249–262. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2012.658989
Houghton, F., & Scott, L. O. (2019). Linguistic Imperialism, Toponymy, Semiotics & Taxonomies. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 5, 1–15. https://www.journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/43
Howard, S. A., & Knowlton, S. A. (2018). Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies. Library Trends, 67(1), 74–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0026
Knight, F. T. (2017, May 31). What About Classification Bias?: Channeling Sandy Berman. Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians, Toronto, Ontario. http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/25/
Tennis, J. T. (2012). The Strange Case of Eugenics: A Subject’s Ontogeny in a Long-Lived Classification Scheme and the Question of Collocative Integrity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(7), 1350–1359. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/37943/Tennis2012JASISTPreprint.pdf?sequence=1
Berman, S. (1993). Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People. McFarland & Company. http://www.sanfordberman.org/prejant.htm
Berman, S., & Gross, T. (2017). Expand, Humanize, Simplify: An Interview with Sandy Berman. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 55(6), 347–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2017.1327468
Billey, A., & Drabinski, E. (2019). Questioning Authority: Changing Library Cataloging Standards to Be More Inclusive to a Gender Identity Spectrum. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 6(1), 117–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7253538
Howard, S. A., & Knowlton, S. A. (2018). Browsing through Bias: The Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings for African American Studies and LGBTQIA Studies. Library Trends, 67(1), 74–88. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2018.0026
Knowlton, S. A. (2005). Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 40(2), 123–145. https://doi.org/10.1300/J104v40n02_08
Olson, H. A. (2001). Patriarchal Structures of Subject Access and Subversive Techniques for Change. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 26(2–3), 1–29.
Watson, B. M. (2020). “There was Sex but no Sexuality*:” Critical Cataloging and the Classification of Asexuality in LCSH. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 58(6), 547–565. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2020.1796876
Antell, L. (2018). Change needed: Unpleasant surprises in the subject index. Catalogue and Index, 192, 37–39. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.uk/resource/collection/32B46020-D067-4D33-99A7-4FE34BCDC01A/catalogue_and_index_issue_192_september_2018_antell_change_needed.pdf
McGee, M. (2023, January 11). Change the Subject Project. Alma Resource Management. https://slcny.libguides.com/c.php?g=986218&p=7623203
Problem LCSH. (n.d.). Cataloging Lab. Retrieved April 19, 2023, from https://cataloginglab.org/problem-lcsh/ (Archived page at the time of retrieval: https://web.archive.org/web/20230419174019/https://cataloginglab.org/problem-lcsh/)
Quigley, N. (2020, July 21). How LCSH Represents Transgender Children and Young People. Niamh Quigley. https://neevq.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/how-lcsh-represents-transgender-children-and-young-people/
Homosaurus Vocabulary Site. (2022, December). Homosaurus.org. Retrieved April 19, 2023 from https://homosaurus.org/
List of Statements on Bias in Library and Archives Description. (2023, April). Cataloging Lab. Retrieved April 19, 2023, from https://cataloginglab.org/list-of-statements-on-bias-in-library-and-archives-description/ (Archived page at the time of retrieval: https://web.archive.org/web/20230419174550/https://cataloginglab.org/list-of-statements-on-bias-in-library-and-archives-description/)
Willey, E., Berg, J., Chapman, C., Neidhardt, G., Porrata, S., & Young, J. (2021). Social Justice in Cataloging Annotated Bibliography. Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library, 141. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpml/141