Modifications to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for use by Manitoba archives

The Association for Manitoba Archives has created a database where their members can deposit archival descriptions, in order to provide a central search mechanism for users. The Library of Congress Subject Headings were also added, to provide the members with a controlled subject vocabulary to use in their descriptions. The AMA was quickly notified that the LCSH terminology relating to Indigenous peoples is antiquated and inappropriate in a Canadian and Manitoban context. Changes were made related to the following: the word “Indian”; geographic place being embedded in terms such as “Indians of North America”; changes related to Manitoba peoples specifically; and many miscellaneous changes not part of a larger pattern. New terms for concepts not extant in LCSH were also added. The final document contains 1093 changed or deleted headings and 120 new headings.