Highlights from the February 2015 SACO editorial meeting and LCSH monthly list.
SACO, emphases theirs
Digital literacy
LCSH includes the headings Computer literacy, Technological literacy, Information literacy, Internet literacy, and Media literacy, all of which overlap somewhat with the proposed heading. The meeting does not wish to introduce another term that will further divide similar works from each other. Digital literacy is closest in scope to Computer literacy, so a UF Digital literacy will be added to the existing heading. The proposal was not approved.
These headings admittedly are related, but overlap…no. Computer literacy=hardware. Technological literacy=well, that's really too big to even define. Information literacy=CAN WE PLEASE SAY INFORMATION FLUENCY PLEASE? Internet literacy=to me that sounds more like knowledge about privacy and wisdom about how/when to use what type of resource. Media literacy=Can you believe they didn't also throw in Transmedia literacy? But anyway, EVERYTHING IS MEDIA—print, AV, digital, etc. Digital literacy=Vague!
LCSH, emphases mine
150 Body image in girls--Religious aspects [sp2014100048](A)
150 Body image in girls--Religious aspects--Buddhism, [Christianity, etc.] [sp2014100049]
Duh.
150 Child guerrillas [May Subd Geog] [sp2014001982](C)
450 UF Juvenile guerrillas
550 BT Guerrillas
I'm surprised they didn't also give a BT Children.
Photo from some click bait site.
150 Computer literacy [May Subd Geog] [sp 85029509 ]
450 UF Digital literacy ADD FIELD
See above for why I think Digital literacy is a dumb UF.
150 Mentally ill teenagers [May Subd Geog] [sp2014100242](C)
550 BT Teenagers
680 Here are entered works on mentally ill teenagers as a class of persons. Descriptive works on mental disorders of teenagers are entered under Adolescent psychopathology. Works on the clinical and therapeutic aspects of mental disorders in teenagers are entered under Adolescent psychiatry.
681 Note under Adolescent psychopathology; Adolescent psychiatry
Helpful.
150 Trigger films [May Subd Geog] [sp2015000010](C)
053 PN1995.9.T83
550 BT Short films
680 Here are entered works on short films designed to stimulate discussion of vital issues or difficult problems.
I wonder what other Trigger headings this will trigger.
150 Yoga teachers [May Subd Geog] [sp2014100194](A)
450 UF Yoga instructors
550 BT Teachers
Namaste, LC!
Photo of 90-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch from Daily Mail