Stacks Xchange: Field Notes–Black Feminist Epistemology and Critical Cataloging

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Date
November 17, 2026,
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm PST
Location
DataX, 3312 Murphy Hall

In this talk, Anju Mitchell addresses the call for ethical library metadata creation by offering Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Epistemology" to critical cataloging practice and theory.

Mitchell is currently a Database Maintenance Specialist at the UCLA Library Resource Acquisitions and Metadata Services, as well as a PhD student in the Department of Information Studies. Her research interests are in ethical library metadata representations of marginalized identities and communities.