DESCRIPTION
Amy Mikel (Brooklyn Public Library) and Miriam Gloger (BookOps) will share reparative cataloging practices undertaken by BPL and the ongoing efforts to design a sustainable and evolving approach that is collaborative, inclusive, and cross-institutional to serve diverse stakeholders within a large urban public library system. The session will detail opportunities, considerations, and technical strategies for libraries looking to implement and support inclusive cataloging by using local terms in the OPAC, and processes for flagging and addressing outdated, offensive, biased, or misapplied terms from LCSH and other standard thesauri.
SPEAKER BIOS
Amy Mikel is the Senior Director of Customer Experience at Brooklyn Public Library, responsible for implementing exceptional library services in the areas of reference, circulation and collections across 62 branch locations. She oversees the Library’s strategic decision-making for circulating print, media, eBooks and database collections as well as the processes and policies which govern patron account management and materials circulation. Mikel has received several national awards for her work, including those from Library Journal, the Urban Libraries Council, and the American Library Association. She publishes and presents widely in the areas of information literacy and patron access.
Miriam Gloger is a supervising librarian on the Branch Cataloging team at BookOps-the shared technical services organization of The New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library. She has extensive experience with Catalog Database Management and Metadata projects for the both Brooklyn Public Library and the New York Public Branch and Research libraries. She received her MLIS from Pratt Institute and a BA in History and AA in Judaic studies from Stern College, Yeshiva University.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Registration Deadline for live event: May 13, 2026. This webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants after the webinar is completed. The last date to purchase recording: August 13, 2026. After August 13, 2026 the recording will be made freely available.
WEBINAR RATES
Free for NASIG Student Members. Login to NASIG website before registering
Free for NASIG Members. Login to NASIG website before registering
Free for NISO or SSP Members with code. Email cec@nasig.org to receive code
$25 for Non-Members
$50 for Group Registration. No size limit. One person registers and shares login details with their group.
