Ellen,
What wonderful news! I was glad to se that Jerry Krois contributed to the change too. Go ASCLA!
I have some reservations about the "People with disabilities" = "People with physical disabilities" choice. It perpetuates a frequent usage, as noted in the analysis, of equating physical and/or visually evident disability with disability. In doing so, it perpetuates a false stereotype. I'll address a comment to them tomorrow.
Still, this warrents a big celebration! [Picture streamers, noisemakers, and your beverage of choice!]
Thank you for your active role in this milestone victory for all of us people with disabilities!
Audrey
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Dear Accessibiity Advocates:
With your POSITIVE, PEOPLE-FIRST advocacy, we can REALLY make it happen. Your
input to the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) is
kindly requested by September 15th (ADDRESS BELOW). A for Accessibility: Positive Wins Every
Time!
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Ellen Perlow
Chair, ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Committee
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative
"Celebrating a New Century that Celebrates Diversity"
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Annual Submission Deadline: March 1
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Forward of My Lette of Thanks to CPSO's Mr. Weiss (from IFLA) and Mr. Weiss'
letter.
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Re: People with disabilities-Thank YOU!!!!!
Date :
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:04:58 -0500
To: Mr. Paul Weiss:
From the Internet Cafe at the IFLA-Boston conference:
Thank you personally so VERY much for reconsidering your decision and choosing
publicly and
legally-accepted People-First language "People with disabilities" as your new
LC subject heading. Your
action is to be highly commended and again, MANY, many thanks.
With deepest gratitude and Bravo!
Ellen Perlow
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>From: Paul G Weiss
>To: [log in to unmask]
>CC: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
>Subject: People with disabilities
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:11:20 -0400
>
>Dear Ms. Perlow:
>
>Thank you for your recent letter concerning the Cataloging Policy and
>Support Office's (CPSO) plans to update the subject heading
>"Handicapped." As you know from our previous telephone conversation,
>we had originally planned to change this heading to "Disabled
>persons." After our conversation, my office did further research that
>confirmed your contention that the term "disabled persons" is
>objectionable to many and is not in conformity with language that is
>sanctioned by the national and state governments in the United States
>as well as in most English-speaking countries. As a result, we are
>now planning to change the heading to "People with disabilities."
>
>Barbara Tillett, chief of CPSO, recently sent a memo to the chair of
>the ALA Subject Analysis Committee, explaining our position and
>inviting comment before we proceed with this change. For your
>information, I am includig below the text of that memo. We will not
>be taking any further action until after the September 15 deadline for
>comment.
>
>Thanks again for your interest and for expressing your views to us.
>
>Paul Weiss
>Cataloging Policy and Support Office
>Library of Congress
>
>Barbara Tillett's memo to the chair of SAC:
>
>TO: David Miller, Chair of SAC
>Reply requested by Sept. 15, 2001
>
>In preparation for the publication of the 25th edition of Library of
>Congress Subject Headings and in response to increasing pressure from
>individuals and advocacy organizations for people with disabilities,
>the Cataloging Policy and Support Office intends to update to current
>terminology hundreds of subject headings that use the word
>"handicapped." These include the heading "Handicapped" itself, as
>well as phrase headings that incorporate the word, such as
>"Handicapped teenagers," "Sports for the handicapped," etc.
>
>CPSO's initial research on this topic pointed us in the direction of
>changing "Handicapped" to "Disabled persons," since our general
>practice is to use the most subject-significant word in the initial
>position in subject headings. However, after further research, we
>came to realize that those who advocate the "people first" position
>object to the term "Disabled persons" and strongly prefer that
>"Handicapped" be changed to "People with disabilities." Usage of this
>terminology would conform with terminology used in the Americans With
>Disabilities Act as well as the term that is officially sanctioned for
>use by most state governments in the United States and by the national
>governments of the major English-speaking countries, such as Great
>Britain, Canada, and Australia. As there is abundant literary warrant
>for the use of this natural-language term, CPSO has now concluded that
>"People with disabilities" is the only appropriate replacement for the
>heading "Handicapped." Some examples of changed heaings that will
>result from the adoption of this terminology in LCSH:
>
>Current heading Replacement
>heading
>Handicapped People with
>disabilities
>Mentally handicapped People with mental
>disabilities
>Socially handicapped People with social
>disabilities
>Handicapped children Children with
>disabilities
>Camps for mentally handicapped children Camps for
>children with mental disabilities
>Group homes for the handicapped Group homes for people
>with disabilities
>Handicapped-owned business enterprises Business enterprises owned by
>people with disabilities
>Indian handicapped children Indian children with
>disabilities
>Monkeys as aids for the handicapped Monkeys as aids for
>people with disabilities
>Perceptually handicapped children Children with
>perceptual disabilities
>Self-employed handicapped Self-employed people
>with disabilities
>
> We are also contemplating an additional change in practice
>with respect to the heading "Physically handicapped." Currently the
>headings "Handicapped" and "Physically handicapped" are both valid LC
>subject headings. We intend to use the heading "People with
>disabilities" as both the general heading and the heading specifically
>for people with physical disabilities, rather than creating the
>specific heading "People with physical disabilities." In common
>usage, the term "people with disabilities" most frequently refers to
>people with physical disabilities. Using only this one heading will
>avoid the needless proliferation of duplicate arrays of headings that
>confuse both catalogers and library users. Some examples of changed
>headings that will result from this change in our practice:
>
>Current heading Replacement
>heading
>Physically handicapped People with
>disabilities
>Physically handicapped, Writings of the People with
>disabilities, Writings of
>Physically handicapped children Children with
>disabilities
>Physically handicapped truck drivers Truckdrivers with
>disabilities
>
>Finally, we intend to change the heading "Architecture and the
>physically handicapped" to "Barrier-free design" and the subdivision
>"--Access for the physically handicapped" (used under types of
>buildings) to the subdivision "--Barrier-free design."
>
>It may be of interest to you to know that CPSO has already received a
>letter dated July 16, 2001 from Jerry Krois, president of the
>Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, the
>division of ALA that focuses on library service to special populations
>including people with disabilities. Speaking for ASCLA, Mr. Krois
>strongly advocates that CPSO change "Handicapped" to "People with
>disabilities."
>
>Before proceeding with these changes, we would like to invite your
>reaction and comments. Since we need to schedule this work for early
>autumn in order to incorporate the changed headings into the 25th
>edition of LCSH, we would appreciate receiving your response by
>September 15, 2001.
>
>Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D.
>Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office
>Library of Congress
>101 Independence Ave., S.E.
>Washington, D.C. 20540-4305
>U.S.A.
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