LCSH Weeks 1-3, in which I get a little existential. Also good times for ORPHAN WORKS and the ANTI-COPYRIGHT MOVEMENT.

I have to admit I'm getting a little sick of this game and also I'm becoming increasingly demoralized about the efficacy of subject headings, even if we could convince the Library of Congress to fucking acknowledge BUTCHES and FEMMES, the FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT, SEX WORKERS, FREEGANISM, and, for the love of dog, FOLKSONOMY. (See a larger list of Sandy Berman's suggestions if you don't already get the idea.)

But for some reason I can't let go, so here I give you a three for one on LCSH Watch!

Week 1, January 6, 2010:

(C) 150 Corn mummies [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010729]
450 UF Grain mummies
450 UF Mummies, Corn
450 UF Mummies, Grain
450 UF Mummies, Osiris
450 UF Osiris mummies
551 BT Egypt—Antiquities
550 BT Idols and images—Egypt

(C) 150 Feminism on television [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009010373]
550 BT Television
Warrant: an article in the Canadian Review of American Studies, "Death Wore Black Chiffon: Sex and Gender in CSI." Thank you Johns Hopkins University Press cataloger, but wtf? They list one article, whereas I've given a whole buttload of books held at LC for any sort of FEMME SH. Granted, I haven't gone through proper channels, but I'm attempting to work that out with catalogers at Columbia, but so far no go. Stay tuned.

(A) 150 Jewish transgender people [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010821]
053 BM729.T65
450 UF Transgender Jews
550 BT Transgender people
Welcome to the catalog! Work cited Balancing on the mechitza. Sexy! (From Wikipedia, "A mechitza (Hebrew: מחיצה, partition or division, pl.: מחיצות, mechitzot) in Jewish Halakha is a partition that is used to separate men and women."

(C) 150 Mind and body in motion pictures [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009010377]
550 BT Motion pictures
Scope note, please!

(A) 150 Orphan works (Copyright) [May Subd Geog] [sp2009009646]
550 BT Copyright
This is big. You can now describe orphan works. Just don't try to quote them.

(C) 150 Pink in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009010883]
This is cute and all, but I think it pales in comparison to the need for certain other headings.

(C) 150 Stupidity in art [Not Subd Geog] [sp2009010585]
There's also STUPIDITY IN LITERATURE, in case you were wondering. I snicker at the idea of these headings being used vengefully.

(C) 150 Work life balance [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010770]
450 UF Life work balance
550 BT Time management
550 RT Quality of life
550 RT Work
550 RT Work and family
Ugh. Brought to you by the Jefferson County Public Library, Administration for a book called What happy working mothers know : how new findings in positive psychology can lead to a healthy and happy work/life balance. Note—I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this book. It's just a little peppy sounding is all.

Week 2, January 13, 2010:

(C) 150 Cultural intelligence [sp2009009542]
680 Here are entered works on a person's ability to function effectively in multicultural settings.
450 UF CQ (Cultural quotient)
450 UF Cultural quotient
450 UF Intelligence, Cultural
450 UF Quotient, Cultural
550 BT Intellect
550 RT Cultural awareness
I'm all for functioning effectively in multicultural settings, but CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE to describe it seems a little newspeak to me. Like "intelligence" in the sense of "military intelligence."

150 D.C. hand dance [sp2009010781]
053 GV1796.D33
450 UF African American swing (Dance)
450 UF Capitol City swing (Dance)
450 UF D.C. hand dancing
450 UF D.C. style swing (Dance)
450 UF D.C. swing (Dance)
450 UF DC hand dance
450 UF DC hand dancing
450 UF DC style swing (Dance)
450 UF DC swing (Dance)
450 UF Fast dance (D.C. hand dance)
450 UF Hand dance, D.C.
450 UF Hand dancing, D.C.
450 UF Queenstown (D.C. hand dance)
450 UF S.E. style (D.C. hand dance)
450 UF SE style (D.C. hand dance)
550 BT African American dance
550 RT Jitterbug (Dance)
550 RT Swing (Dance)
I LOVE a lot of UFs, as you know, but I was expecting something more dramatic or kooky than, "Hand dance/dancing/dancer is a partnership (male/female) style dance distinguished by the motions of the male's hand and received by the female's hand to follow his lead." from Who's Who in Hand Dance

* 150 Enemies (Persons) CANCEL
150 Enemies [May Subd Geog] [sp 95005954]
450 UF Adversaries
450 UF Antagonists
450 UF Enemies (Persons) [EARLIER FORM OF HEADING]
450 UF Foes
450 UF Opponents
550 RT Hostility (Psychology)
360 SA subdivision Adversaries under names of individual persons
ENEMIES are no longer limited to PERSONS, eh? Which do you think they're afraid of? Computers or zombies?

(C) 150 Handball players [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010854]
450 UF Handballers
450 UF Players, Handball
550 BT Athletes
Sad that they didn't go with Handballers, eh?

(C) 150 Happy hours [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010761]
450 UF Hours, Happy
550 BT Drinking of alcoholic beverages—Marketing
550 RT Bars (Drinking establishments)
550 RT Cocktails
550 RT Restaurants
I suspect that the catalogers at the University of Washington are a bunch of lushes.

Week 3, January 20, 2010:

150 Anti-copyright movement [May Subd Geog] [sp2009010792]
053 Z649.A68
450 UF Pirate movement (Anti copyright movement)
550 BT Social movements
550 RT Copyright
550 RT Copyright infringement
Welcome to the catalog ANTI-COPYRIGHT MOVEMENT! Some of my best friends are anti-copyright movers, you know!

(C) 150 Condom use—Religious aspects—Buddhism, [Christianity, etc.] [sp2009011046]
Insert your own comment here, please.

(C) 150 Lesbian photographers [May Subd Geog] [sp2009011101]
550 BT Women photographers
Welcome to the catalog LESBIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS.

150 Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis) [Not Subd Geog] [sp2010000068]
550 BT Psychoanalysis
They cite some book with a French title and explain it with a Wikipedia definition, "The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche -- literally, "un-home-ly") is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange ... The concept of the Uncanny was later elaborated on and developed by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay The Uncanny." My mama's a shrink, but I hadn't heard of this before, which I don't think is a terrible loss. I like the sound of it, though.