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New Guidance on Gender-Sensitive Cataloging from the PCC Task Group on Gender
No full textThis presentation highlights recent advances in gender representation in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF), as well as metadata in bibliographic records emphasizing impacts on music cataloging practices. As understandings of gender identity and personal privacy evolve, music catalogers face new challenges in creating catalog records that are both accurate and inclusive.
We will focus on guidelines proposed by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Task Group on Gender, with an emphasis on recommendations for creating NACO name authority records and description in bibliographic records. Through specific examples, the session will illuminate how these updates form a framework for addressing complex issues around gendered terms and representation in authority and bibliographic records.
Key topics include guidelines regarding gendered occupational terms and best practices for gender-neutral terms for recording associations with corporate bodies. Additional considerations include recording former names in ways that balance historical accuracy and personal privacy and incorporation of individuals’ personal preferences in the process of creating authority records in accordance with new PCC recommendations.
By engaging with these updates, music catalogers will gain practical insights into implementing gender-sensitive practices that honor inclusivity and respect and adhere to PCC’s latest guidance
TESTING CROSS-CULTURAL MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE AND COMPARING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
No full textThesis (Ed.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies/School of Education, 2025Research instruments are often designed in specific cultural contexts and most often for participants who are from dominant cultures. Responses from participants who are not from these types of cultures could present a threat to the validity of comparisons between students from differing cultural origins. This threat to validity of comparisons is called measurement bias (or measurement non-invariance), which can originate from sources that differ systematically across cultures.
This study employs Berry’s Ecological Framework (Berry, 2018) from the field of cross- cultural psychology as a basis for assessing how well certain constructs of student engagement, as conceptualized for and measured by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), relates to international undergraduate student experiences in US four-year institutions. The internal measurement validity for three NSSE engagement indicators (EI) is assessed between domestic and international students and between students from different world regions and nations. Maintaining measurement invariance allows for valid comparisons among different groupings on three engagement constructs.
The methods used in this study include Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA) to assess measurement invariance and the Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model—with and without accounting for covariates—to compare levels of engagement between groups if invariant. Results indicate that one EI had poor model fit and was excluded from the study. The other two EIs, Student-Faculty Interaction and Collaborative Learning, maintained measurement invariance, indicating that these EIs function similarly across cultural groups.
In terms of comparing levels of engagement, on average: 1) international students report more interaction with faculty than domestic students; 2) Asian, Latin American, and Sub-Saharan African students report more interaction with faculty than North Americans; 3) Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and South Korean students report more interaction with faculty than US students; 4) Sub-Saharan African students report more collaboration with their peers than North Americans; 5) and Indian and South Korean students report more collaboration with their peers than US students. These findings offer evidence to higher education administrators that the Student-Faculty Interaction and Peer Collaboration EI’s are valid for international students. These methods and findings offer institutional researchers as well as higher education researchers insights into assessing cultural bias from survey data
DOES KNOWLEDGE LEAD TO ACTION? EMPOWERING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO SUPPORT MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS IN ACADEMICALLY AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE WAYS
No full textThesis (Ed.D.) - Indiana University, Department of Curriculum & Instruction/School of Education, 2025This dissertation explores how school administrators learn about and apply knowledge related to multilingual learners (MLs), and how this understanding shapes their leadership practices within secondary school settings. Grounded in a qualitative case study approach, the research focuses on three department chairs overseeing seven departments in a diverse high school. Through a series of four structured study sessions, participants engaged with frameworks such as the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP), translanguaging pedagogy, and culturally responsive teaching (CRT). In this study I investigate how these leaders reflect on their current practices, identify systemic barriers, and consider shifts necessary to better serve ML students.
The conceptual framework draws on sociocultural learning theory and transformative leadership, emphasizing the importance of reflective practice and equity-driven decision-making in educational leadership. I collected data through audio-recorded discussions, written reflections, and a culminating artifact: a collaboratively developed lesson plan reflecting a reimagined approach to instruction that centers multilingual learners’ linguistic and cultural assets.
Findings reveal that administrators often possess limited formal preparation regarding ML education but are eager to engage when provided with structured, reflective opportunities. Participants identified critical gaps in district-wide training, inconsistencies in program implementation, and a lack of shared language for discussing ML needs. They also expressed a shift in mindset—from deficit-oriented views to asset-based frameworks that value students’ bilingualism and cultural identities.
This study contributes to the field by illustrating how targeted professional learning can foster more inclusive, equity-minded leadership practices. It also offers a replicable model for engaging administrators in structured reflection and collaborative inquiry to build capacity in supporting MLs. Ultimately, the research underscores that when school leaders are given the space to learn and reflect, they can become powerful advocates for systemic change that better supports multilingual students academically and culturally
Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance
No full textThesis (DM) – Indiana University, Music, 2025Throughout Abya Yala (the Americas) various communities of string players are engaging in otherwise (Crawley 2017) practices of learning through musicking (Small 1998). I have been able to create and sustain strong relationships of solidarity with two of these communities in Colombia and the U.S.A., the Visionaries Ensemble for Visual Functional Diversity (Ensamble Visionaries), and the Bridges Musical Arts Youth Organization (Bridges MAYO). Our collaborations center on democratizing access to oral and academic practices present in musics from Afroindigenous cultures from Colombia and the Western conservatory tradition. The stories, materials, resources, media and what I call academic+oral (Robinson 2020) methods resulting from our collaborations, are accessible through the Resuena Abya Yala (RAY) website and the “RAY supporting materials” listed in the Appendix; these are free bilingual harvests from the present research. Through applying the relationality central to el Vivir Sabroso in my learning and teaching, I bring together bowed string players who are sounding their identities and transcending the binary of academic versus community-based dynamics (Rodríguez 2018), through a transversal approach to power that I argue could be perceived as resistance within decolonial praxis (Albán Achinte 2009)
Men Make Up the Majority: How Gender Disparity in Core Creative Teams Manifests in Animated Films
No full textWhose story is being told? This study examined how gender representation in core creative teams impacted the top 150 animated films produced between 1991-2023 in the forms of sex distribution of lead and speaking characters, if there were multiple female characters who interacted with each other, and the role of the lead character's parents. In reality, men make up only half the world, however we found that 82% of lead characters were male with men representing 79% of the creative staff. This is important as media shapes and solidifies our social reality no matter how bizarre or accurate it is
Exploring GI Health in Young Adults and the Affinity Toward Fad Diets
No full textGI symptoms are highly prevalent in the United States, specifically in young adults. Up to 65% of adults aged 18-25 experience symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders on a weekly basis. Many factors contribute to this including diet and personal beliefs associated with symptoms. To find relief, many people eliminate foods that cause symptoms. Some turn to fad diets. These can vary in their effectiveness, but they are often advertised online. A specific fad diet, the Animal-based diet, has been pushed to popularity by Dr. Paul Saladino, encouraging people to only eat animal products and fruit. This study aims to give a well-rounded knowledge of GI symptoms, their associated causes, and diet as a way to deal with symptoms. This information is used to analyze Saladino’s nutritional claims and how they challenge standard recommendations for eating. Methods include a review of literature in academic journals and medical websites as well as analysis of popular media
Fatness, Belonging, and Solidarity in Library Work
No full textFat folks working in libraries face challenges that are both ubiquitous in a broader culture of anti-fatness and unique in our roles as knowledge workers, service providers, and community representatives. Based on interviews with fat librarians, experiences in librarianship, and relevant scholarship, this presentation will address the ways in which fatness and anti-fat bias affect and inform library work. In addition to discussing how library workers and users experience anti-fatness, this presentation will focus on the distinctive role that fat librarians play in creating better libraries, particularly when they identify as part of the fat community. Participants will be invited to consider how centering fat perspectives can contribute to more inclusive and welcoming libraries by dismantling oppressive hierarchies, fostering belonging, and cultivating solidarity
Stronger Together at the Big Ten: Library Publishing Collective Action
No full textThis presentation was delivered as an individual session at the 2025 Library Publishing Forum.Tasked with serving extremely large populations, with limited resources and little chance of realizing increased capacities, the Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries are realizing opportunities to work together through collective action. With a goal of strengthening our work, and expanding our capacity, the library publishers of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have aligned our resources in order to build a cooperative, aggregated collection of BTAA-published works on the Next Generation Library Publishing’s Meru platform. The short term goal of this project is to evaluate Meru’s capacity to support the display of a variety of publication types, regardless of the platform they were created on. The longer term goals are to determine Meru’s capacity to produce metadata for all publications (or selected publications) for use in discovery systems and preservation systems, and to identify options for the Alliance to work at scale. At this presentation, members of the project team will share information about the functionality of Meru and the process used to ingest content from Janeway, OJS, DSpace, and Pressbooks into a unified, structured display layer. The interactive, community engaged process used to identify the common product requirements, and to evaluate the implemented multi-publisher display platform will also be explored. We will also outline our efforts to assess the potential for reusing the newly compiled, aggregated publication data for discovery (via third party vendors such as ExLibris, EBSCO, and OAPEN), preservation (via third party vendors, Portico and CLOCKSS), and accessibility testing. These activities will be shared within the context of the challenges and opportunities present when bringing together disparate programs; We aim to identify our differences in order to strengthen all our publishing programs and see what synergy comes from working together