Gender and Sexuality Funnel Project

The Gender and Sexuality Funnel Project was formed in summer 2022 and falls under the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s SACO Program (Subject Authority Cooperative Program). This project promotes and facilitates the creation and revision of authority records for Library of Congress controlled vocabularies used in the cataloging of resources about, for, and by transgender, gender diverse, intersex, asexual, and other queer, non-heteronormative or non-heterosexual people. The goal of this project is to improve access to gender- and sexuality-related resources, and to reflect more accurately the terminology used by non-heteronormative and/or non-heterosexual communities.

Additionally, the Gender and Sexuality Funnel Project is interested in the creation and revision of terminology addressing personal relationships, with a focus on subject authority records that perpetuate or normalize cisgender and heterosexual perspectives and relationships as the standard.

Anyone interested in becoming a participant in the funnel project should contact [email protected].

Co-chairs:

Maya Espersen (she/her/hers or they/them/theirs)
Cataloging Coordinator
Aurora Public Library
City of Aurora, CO

Adam L. Schiff (he/him/his)
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libraries
Seattle, WA

Members:

Jennifer Bradshaw (she/her/hers)
Metadata Production Coordinator and Rare Materials Cataloger
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA

Liza Campbell (she/her)
Head of Technical Services, Associate Librarian
John C. Pace Library, Technical Services Department
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL

Christy Chady (she/her)
Cataloging Associate
Anythink Libraries (Adams County Public Library)
Adams County, CO

Mary Cornell
Cataloger
Cataloging Maintenance Center/IHLS
Champaign, IL

Billie Cotterman (she/her/hers)
Head of Electronic Resources and Access Services
Cochrane-Woods Library
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lincoln, NE

Michelle Cronquist (she/her/hers)
Special Collections Cataloger
Special Collections Technical Services, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Tiffany Day (she, her, hers)
Metadata & Catalog Librarian, Assistant Professor
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN

Sal Hamerman (they/them)
Metadata Librarian, Rare Books Specialty
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ

B.L. Hendrickson
Cataloging Librarian and Assistant Professor
Leonard H. Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS

Tiffany Henry
Discovery Cataloger
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Greensboro, NC

Tracy M. Jackson
Russell-Flowers Technical Services Archivist
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Duke University
Durham, NC

Robin Goodfellow (Puck) Malamud
Cataloger and Classifier II
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA

MaryKellie Marquez (she/her)
Acquisitions and Cataloging Manager
Warrenville Public Library District
Warrenville, IL

Kathleen McElhinney
Cataloging/Metadata Librarian
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

Chloe Misorski (she/her)
Cataloging Librarian
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH

Paul Richmond
Technical Services Librarian
Emerson College
Boston, MA

Shirley Roitberg
Lead Cataloger
McHenry Public Library District
McHenry, IL

Rebecca Saunders (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
Hunter Library
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC

Beck Schaefer
Cataloguing Assistant
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
Toronto, ON, Canada

Garth Tardy (he/him)
Metadata Librarian
University of Missouri--Kansas City
Kansas City, MO

Deborah Tomaras (she/her)
Metadata and Resource Management Librarian
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY

Karin Wece (she/they)
Special Formats Cataloger
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

Israel Yanez (he/him/his)
Cataloging Specialist
Peter J. Shields Library
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Ronja Zweifel
Cataloging Librarian
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Last update: 03/28/2025