Highlights from the July 2016 SACO editorial meeting and LCSH monthly list.
SACO, emphases theirs
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Subdivisions to be added to lists of free-floating subdivisions:
H 1095, Free-Floating Subdivisions
$x Case studies
H 1100, Classes of Persons
$x Case studies
H 1103, Ethnic groups
$x Case studies
H 1105, Corporate bodies
$x Case studies
I am decidedly pro free-floating subdivisions. I wish, per my complaint last week about SACO's shootdown of Paranormal fiction, Cuban, they could figure out a way to make Subject heading, COUNTRY freely applicable.
Asian American neighborhoods
The title of the work being cataloged, “GlobalLinks,” was provided in support of this proposal, along with a Google search that confirms the use of the phrase being proposed as the heading. The proposal should include information from the work that supports the concept represented by the proposed heading. The proposal may be resubmitted.
I get The Meeting's frustration with a proposal that has nothing to do with the proposed heading, but if the pattern exists, which it does, see African American neighborhoods, why not establish the heading?
LCSH, emphases mine
150 Bloggers [May Subd Geog] [sp2016000243](A)
450 UF Webloggers
550 BT Authors
And not a decade too soon!
150 Discrimination against intersex people [May Subd Geog] [sp2016001192](C)
550 BT Intersex people
150 Intersex people [May Subd Geog] [sp2007003860](C)
450 UF Inter* individuals ADD FIELD
Boo discrimination, but yay a way to describe it!
150 Electronic monitoring of children [May Subd Geog] [sp2016001237](A)
450 UF Children--Electronic monitoring of
550 BT Electronic surveillance
150 Electronic monitoring of youth [May Subd Geog] [sp2016000953](A)
053 HQ799.2.E54
450 UF Youth--Electronic monitoring of
550 BT Electronic surveillance
Warrant is Surveillance, childhood and youth. Good times.
150 Minority women college teachers [May Subd Geog] [sp2016000568](A)
550 BT Minority college teachers
550 BT Women college teachers
What will LC do when people of color are no longer a minority in the US? And why teachers, not professors?
150 Photography of pets [May Subd Geog] [sp2016000303](C)
053 TR729.P48
450 UF Pet photography
550 BT Pets
Yes, please! See also: Instagram.
DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP TERMS
150 Barbadian Canadians [dp2016060155](C)
072 eth
450 UF Bajan Canadians
450 UF Barbadienne, Canadiens d'origine
450 UF Canadians, Bajan
450 UF Canadians, Barbadian
450 UF Canadiens d'origine barbadienne
There are several other delightful new dgt, but this one notable because of the Canadian hyphenate, which I've found lacking in LCSH