Highlights from the November 2015 SACO editorial meeting and LCSH monthly list.
SACO, emphases theirs
This month, among others, they rejected Hypermasculinity and Slub (The Polish word), but what's more interesting is the GENRE/FORM TERMS Announcements.
Scope note style
Beginning in mid-November, PSD will undertake a project to simplify the wording of scope notes in LCGFT. Instead of beginning with “This heading is used as a genre/form heading for…,” scope notes will not have an introductory phrase. The style of the second sentence of contrasting scope notes will also be revised. Formerly, the pattern was as follows:
Scope note without reference to another term
This heading is used as a genre/form heading for [description.]
Contrasting scope note
This heading is used as a genre/form heading for [description of Term A]. [Description of Term B] are entered under [Term B].
Going forward, scope notes will be formatted as follows:
Scope note without reference to another term
[Description].
Contrasting scope note
[Description of Term A]. For [description of Term B] see [Term B].
This is a TRIUMPH against needless introductions and repetition and something I'm really glad someone else is in charge of worrying about.
Geographic subdivision
To promote consistency in LCGFT, PSD will undertake a project to revise all genre/form terms currently marked (Not Subd Geog) to No decision. This action will have no practical effect on assignment of terms, since neither terms marked (Not Subd Geog) nor those marked No decision may be geographically subdivided. The project will affect approximately 370 of the over 1,800 terms in LCGFT and will be completed by early 2016.
In summary, this change has no impact, but it was worth the effort of altering anyway?
LCSH, emphases mine
151 Białystok (Poland)--History--Białystok Ghetto Uprising, 1943 [sp2014100252](C)
450 UF Białystok Ghetto Uprising, Białystok, Poland, 1943
550 BT World War, 1939-1945—Poland
I've long had a crush on Bialystoker Place. The short street isn't far from my current Lower East Side digs. I love uprisings, and also bialys.
Photo by Eric Goldhagen
150 Cornhusk bags [May Subd Geog] [sp2015002011](C)
450 UF Corn husk bags
550 BT Bags
550 BT Cornhusk craft
One of the warrants is an anthropology master's thesis, Who’s who in Plateau cornhusk bags? : an analysis of maker marks on cornhusk bags, by Melissa De Bie, UWM, 2005.
By Djembayz (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
150 God (Bahai Faith) [May Subd Geog] [sp2015002255]
053 BP388.G63
550 BT Bahai Faith
Should "God" headings be name authorities, rather than subject authorities?
150 Love nests [May Subd Geog] [sp2015001505](C)
550 BT Paramours--Homes and haunts
150 Paramours--Homes and haunts [sp2015002796]
One of the warrants is "Collins English Dictionary 2012 Digital Edition, viewed online August 27, 2015 (love nest. noun : a place suitable for or used for making love)." Snicker. Paramours—Homes and haunts is priceless, too. No warrant is listed, so I guess it *is* possible for LC to just do something because they think it's logical. They explain themselves, "Paramours, although a somewhat dated expression, is undoubtedly the class of persons we have here, and 'Homes and haunts' is SEE FROM 'Places frequented'. Love-nests is far from prominent on the book. The record for an already-permitted string is to accommodate the 450, my really preferred term."
From Elephant Journal
150 Social media in the theater [May Subd Geog] [sp2015002197](A)
550 BT Theater
680 Here are entered works on the depiction of social media in the theater.
Hello, Fawnbook, a play with dialog culled entirely from social media, on the bipolar culture of Facebook with regards to tragedy and the mundane, written by a long-time zine maker Ayun Halliday.
