LC rejects Butch/Femme (Gender identity) and other queer headings but establishes thirteen different Turkish roads

Sun, 01/15/2012 - 2:37pm by jenna

The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 27, December 19, 2011 are:

150 AIDS (Disease)--Patients [May Subd Geog] [sp 92003115 ]
450 UF People living with HIV/AIDS ADD FIELD
150 HIV-positive persons [May Subd Geog] [sp 95001199 ]
450 UF People living with HIV/AIDS ADD FIELD
Are we happy that LC established a reference for People living with HIV/AIDS or pissed that it's just a cross-reference?

150 Digital rights management [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005012]
450 UF DRM (Digital rights management)
450 UF Management, Digital rights
450 UF Rights management, Digital
550 BT Copyright and electronic data processing
No UF Digital restrictions management?

150 Libraries and juvenile delinquents [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005300]
053 Z711.92.J88
450 UF Juvenile delinquents and libraries
450 UF Libraries--Services to juvenile delinquents
450 UF Library services to juvenile delinquents
450 UF Public libraries--Services to juvenile delinquents
550 BT Juvenile delinquents

from the Chicago Gazette

150 Occupy movement [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005188]
550 BT Protest movements
680 Here are entered works on the protest movement against social and economic inequality that originated with Occupy Wall Street in New York, N.Y., and spread from the United States to locations throughout the world.
150 Occupy movement--New York (State) [sp2012000085]
150 Occupy movement--New York (State)--New York [sp2012000086]
450 UF Occupy Wall Street movement

Among the headings that were deemed by the Library of Congress to be of broader general interest that Butch and Femme (i.e., headings were established for them, but not for Butch and Femme).

150 Bitter crab disease [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005235]
450 UF BCD (Bitter crab disease)
450 UF BCS (Bitter crab syndrome)
450 UF Bitter crab syndrome
450 UF Pink crab disease
550 BT Crustacea--Infections
550 BT Hemolymph—Infections

150 Chiweenie [May Subd Geog] [sp2011004748]
053 SF429.C49
450 UF Chiweeni
450 UF Mexican hotdog (Dog breed)
550 BT Dog breeds

CC licensed photo by lalagirl

150 Cigar-store Indians [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005370]
450 UF Indians, Cigar-store
550 BT Wood-carving
550 BT Wooden signs and signboards
680 Here are entered works on life-sized wooden carvings of Indians used as advertising for tobacco stores.
For serious?

151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 100-18 (Turkey) [sp2011004957]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 100-24 (Turkey) [sp2011004945]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 190-04 (Turkey) [sp2011004959]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 190-05 (Turkey) [sp2011004958]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 200-20 (Turkey) [sp2011004966]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 200-21 (Turkey) [sp2011004910]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 200-22 (Turkey) [sp2011004938]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 200-23 (Turkey) [sp2011004942]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 260-13 (Turkey) [sp2011004931]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 805-01 (Turkey) [sp2011004960]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 850-03 (Turkey) [sp2011004968]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 850-04 (Turkey) [sp2011004967]
151 Devlet yolu K.K. no. 850-05 (Turkey) [sp2011004956]
and each [state road] with several 451s, a 550, and a 781.

150 Hiking--Religious aspects [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005275]

150 Knife cases [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005175]
450 UF Cases, Knife
550 BT Containers

150 Math rock (Music) [May Subd Geog] [sp2011004438]
550 BT Progressive rock music

CC licensed photo by Braden F

150 Pain in the performing arts [May Subd Geog] [sp2011005049]
550 BT Performing arts
680 Here are entered works on the depiction of pain in the performing arts.

150 Supernatural on radio [Not Subd Geog] [sp2011005216]
053 PN1991.8.S87
550 BT Radio

from Gajitz

Other gay headings disapproved by SACO:

Hat tip to Adam Schiff for the Summary of Decisions link and proposing most, if not all, of the narrow and specialized (that's my new favorite euphemism for gay/queer!) subject headings to begin with.

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Comments

Bobby Bothmann (not verified)

Thu, 02/16/2012 - 8:01pm

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I tried this in 2006: Gay and

I tried this in 2006:
Gay and lesbian fiction; Gay and lesbian literature

LC said this: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/cpsoed/cpsoed-060426.html

Works about literature dealing with gay/lesbian themes, characters, etc., are entered under subject headings such as Homosexuality in literature; Gays in literature; etc. Additional subject headings are assigned to show the language, nationality, or literary form, such as American fiction--History and criticism; German literature--20th century--History and criticism. Collections of such literary works are entered under [topic]--Fiction; [topic]--Literary collections; etc., with additional subject headings for the nationality, literary form, etc. Literary works written by gays or lesbians are entered under Gays' writings or Lesbians' writings with appropriate national or language qualifier. Works that discuss multiple relationships between literature and homosexuality and entered under Homosexuality and literature. The concepts expressed in the proposed headings are therefore already provided for in LCSH, and the proposals are not approved.

I really find "homosexuality in literature" to not work for works that are fiction and have LGBT characters and situations. We really need a genre heading.

jenna

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 10:48am

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