SAC: ALA Annual Report 2023
Core Metadata and Collections Section Subject Analysis Committee 2023 Annual Meeting June 14-16, 2023 reported by Janelle West, Vocabularies Subcommittee chair and liaison to SAC The Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) met virtually on June 14-16, 2023. The first two meetings consisted of brief reports by the various liaisons and committee members, with the final day primarily reserved for follow-up on old business and the introduction of new business. A common thread throughout the meeting continues to be ongoing efforts to address prejudicial, racist, and otherwise derogatory and offensive classifications and vocabularies relating to Indigenous peoples, enslaved people, and other areas of DEI work. Other select points of note are presented below, and full details on committee and liaison updates may be viewed in the written reports linked at the end. FAST Policy and Outreach Committee (FPOC) FPOC members who are users of Classification Web have noted that LCSH strings are