Hawaiian Cataloging: Working Towards A Hawaiian Knowledge Based System

Abstract

Library of Congress established best practices and a thesaurus of subject headings that is the standard in many libraries and repositories worldwide. Library of congress has a world view that sometimes clashes with knowledge that exists in local communities. Local librarians, catalogers and students are working on different projects to address this challenge and create subject headings and organizational schemes that are based on and reflect Hawaiian knowledge systems. This panel will address such projects that are advocating to make repositories more searchable for the Hawaiian community.