Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 12 (March 25, 2009)
This week's faves include
Sandy Berman is calling for the Library of Congress to establish a subject heading for SEX-POSITIVE FEMINISM. He cites the an interview Celeste West did with Joani Blank and Annie Sprinkle's Wikipedia entry, and other women sex writers as warrant.
LCSH Week 11
In which the Library of Congress welcomes FLIGHT ATTENDANTS IN LITERATURE, WIZARD ROCK MUSIC, and other fine new headings.
LCSH Weekly List 10
LCSH Weekly List 9, where LC tells you, "It's NANOTUBES not BUCKMINSTERFULLERENES, Dummy!", turns CATALOGS on their asses, and I suggest a related term that some might interpret as anti-law enforcement.
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 08 (February 25, 2009)
In which the Library of Congress changes its tune from CATALOGING, COOPERATIVE to COOPERATIVE CATALOGING. They also welcome DECOLONIZATION, POST RACIALISM, and WITCH HUNTING, and I use the term "idem."
I catalog a lot of zines by writers who identify as queer--not gay, not HOMOSEXUAL, not LESBIAN, not BISEXUAL (though sometimes omnisexual or pansexual)--and I am at a loss for how to represent them in Library of Congressese. SEXUAL MINORITIES seems to be the best the folks at SACO have to offer, but I just have to wonder if persons of the queer persuasion are really happy with that. If the answer is no, what would you like the descriptor to be? I'm addressing this query primarily to queer folk and catalogers.
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 51 (December 17, 2008) and Weekly List 1 (January 7, 2009)
LC welcomes to the catalog SCOOBY- DOO FILMS, sixty cross-references for BREADCRUMB SPONGE, and tweaks the standard form for dealing with bible characters.