LCSH cataloging lists, weeks 5, 6, and 7
The Library of Congress welcomes FETUSES IN RABBINICAL LITERATURE and SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE MILITARY and kicks out OENOLOGY in favor of WINE MAKING.
(A) 150 Advertising—Apartment houses [May Subd Geog] [sp2009000549]
450 UF Apartment houses—Advertising
This has nothing to do with anything, just reminded me that I really hate my landlord.
(C) 150 African American teenage girls in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009000325]
This would have been such a boon to me when I was a teenager, as African-American teenage girls were some of my favorite literary heroines. Well done, LC (for accepting the suggestion from a cataloger at Johns Hopkins University Press)!
150 Alien laborers' families [May Subd Geog] [sp2008030106]
450 UF Families of alien laborers
550 BT Family
Did you know the LCSH for EXPATRIATES is ALIENS? I mean, the word "alien" to describe a non-native in a country is problematic as is, but I think one could argue that the concept of expatriation (see also EXILES) carries a bit more meaning than simply non-resident status in a foreign country, no?
(A) 150 Clothing and dress in motion pictures [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009000456]
550 BT Motion pictures
No UF even for COSTUMES?
(A) 150 Fetuses in rabbinical literature [sp2009000272]
550 BT Rabbinical literature
Perhaps you'll be interested to know that this is the only FETUSES IN subject heading--so far. The warrant was Conceiving Israel: the Fetus in Rabbinical Narratives. Who knew? Nu?
150 Fiddle tunes [May Subd Geog] [sp 85048074]
* 680 This heading is assigned to fiddle tunes for one or more performers.
The Library of Congress can distinguish between FIDDLES and VIOLINS but not between VICTIMS and SURVIVORS?
Speaking of, how about this one:
(A) 150 Mothers of suicide victims [May Subd Geog] [sp2009000274]
450 UF Suicide victims' mothers
550 BT Suicide victims
Is the person who dies from a suicide always a VICTIM? I won't argue that s/he is a SURVIVOR necessarily, but I'm not sure I want LC representing all suicides as victimful crimes. Maybe for the mothers, though.
Down with BODY, HUMAN! Up with HUMAN BODY !
* 150 Body, Human CANCEL
150 Human body [May Subd Geog] [sp 85015222]
053 GT495 GT498 (Manners and customs)
053 HM636 (Sociology)
450 UF Body, Human [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
550 BT Human beings
550 RT Body image
550 RT Human anatomy
550 RT Human physiology
550 RT Mind and body
(C) 150 Intimate partner violence [May Subd Geog] [sp2009000032]
680 Here are entered works on abuse that occurs between two people in a close relationship, including current and former spouses, and dating partners.
450 UF IPV (Intimate partner violence)
450 UF Partner violence, Intimate
550 BT Violence
And
(C) 150 Same sex partner abuse [May Subd Geog] [sp2005020201]
* 550 BT Intimate partner violence
* 550 BT Violence CANCEL
First the US possibly lifting the ban on gays in the military, and now acknowledgment that there could be violence in all pairings, not just in MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS. Let us all be equal in physical fascism! We have a University of Hartford cataloger to thank for the former, and one from the University of Washington for the latter.
(C) 150 Lips in literature [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009000323]
Is it immature if I want to see an RT or SA to LABIA IN LITERATURE?
(C) 150 Skin in motion pictures [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009000326]
550 BT Motion pictures
See what I'm talking about?
Down with OENOLOGY! Up with WINE MAKING!
* 150 Marc (Oenology) CANCEL
150 Marc (Wine making) [May Subd Geog] [sp 85080964]
450 UF Cake (Wine making)
450 UF Marc (Oenology) [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
450 UF Pommace (Wine making)
550 BT Wine and wine making
155 Oral histories [sp2008025718]
680 This heading is used as a genre/form heading for audio or filmed recordings of oral histories.
555 BT Filmed interviews
555 BT Interviews (Sound recordings)
681 Example under Sound recordings
Before you get too scandalized, ORAL HISTORY has been a subject heading since 2004. This is a genre form, which I think is lovely.
(C) 150 Sexual harassment in the military [May Subd Geog] [sp2009000042]
550 BT Armed Forces
I think they're a little late to the party on this one, don't you? Thanks, again, U of Hart. Warrant from materials published between 1998 and 2009.