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Was nur eine Frage der Zeit war, ist eingetreten: Der Angriff auf die Wissenschaften und das kulturelle Gedächtnis erreicht die Library of Congress. Was kommt nächste Woche? Die "Reinigung" des #LCSH auf #woke Begriffe, wie minority, woman, human rights?
#autocracy
#LibrarianOfCongress

Does anyone have a snapshot of #LCSH in some #RDF serialization from before 14 March 2025? I would love to have an archive copy of it before the vandalism of the terms for "Mexico, Gulf of" and "Mount Denali".

I took the minutes in this week's meeting of the collections department in the Ontario university library where I work. This just a brief sample of what we (and all the other libraries) are trying to start to handle. It followed twenty minutes about Clarivate and how we're not buying ebooks from ProQuest.

#LCSH #YorkU

Proposal for Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to rename the Gulf of Mexico (Denali also on the list). UF means "use for."

151 Mexico, Gulf of CHANGE HEADING
151 America, Gulf of [sp 85084621 ]
451 UF Golfo de Méjico
451 UF Golfo de Mexico
451 UF Gulf of America
451 UF Gulf of Mexico
451 UF Mexico, Gulf of [Former heading]
688 Heading changed from Mexico, Gulf of to America, Gulf of in March 2025.
781 America, Gulf of

https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2412a.html

#LCSH #GulfOfMexico

"An Experiment with the Use of ChatGPT for LCSH Subject Assignment on Electronic Theses and Dissertations" by Eric H.C. Chow, T.J. Kao, Xiaoli Li

From the abstract: "Nonetheless, human catalogers remain essential for verifying and enhancing the validity, exhaustivity, and specificity of LCSH generated by LLMs.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16424

#LCSH #Cataloging #Cataloguing #Metadata #generativeAI #Chatgpt #ETDs

"Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/101
#cataloging #academiclibraries #LCSH #criticallibrarianship #queertheory #sexualidentity

"Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/101
#cataloging #academiclibraries #LCSH #criticallibrarianship #queertheory #sexualidentity

"Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/101
#cataloging #academiclibraries #LCSH #criticallibrarianship #queertheory #sexualidentity

"Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/101
#cataloging #academiclibraries #LCSH #criticallibrarianship #queertheory #sexualidentity

"Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog" https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/101
#cataloging #academiclibraries #LCSH #criticallibrarianship #queertheory #sexualidentity

I woke up thinking I needed to make a Library of Congress subject headings magnetic poetry set. Stay tuned!

#LCSH

Also check out Beck Shaefer's new resource "Trans & Gender Diverse LCSH" https://translcsh.com/

#metadata #lgbtqia #gender #lcsh #trans #critcat #librarian #cataloguing #cataloging

The Library of Congress's exploration of revisions of subject headings for American #indigenous groups (see https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/subject/indigenous-interim.html ) represents, among other things, an opportunity for #LCSH and catalogs to rely more on linked relationships between subjects than on unlinked implicit relationships via common string patterns.

(They're rightly planning to rely more on what each indigenous group prefers, rather than just using "__ Indians". But different groups embrace different terminologies.)

The @librarycongress welcomes Sexual minority activists...with a redirect from Queer activists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯s in #LCSH

#Critcat

Not me getting fired up reading an #LCSH monthly approved list. https://classweb.org/approved-subjects/2212.html

How is Future life still a thing? And the need to get country designations approved, e.g., Creative non-fiction, Yugoslav--unnecessary delay. Re: Exiled lawyers, how annoying is that Expatriates isn't a heading (it's a variant of Noncitizens, which is *different*, but there are Expatriate [profession] headings). Greedy algorithms, though, that's a fun one!

White supremacy (Social structure)!!! #critcat

Heard often in my head while cataloging "Can I get a scope note for that vague af heading?"

#LCSH #cataloging #zineCataloging #critcat #vagueAF

In which the @librarycongress is *obsessed* with Mormons/Latter Day Saints https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2304a.html

#lcsh #cataloging #cataloguing #mormons #LatterDaySaints

Has the concept of text-based computer games been squeezed out of #LCSH? "Computer games" and related subject headings appear to have been discontinued in favor of "Video games". While I can see good reason to prefer the latter nowadays (you often see the same game on video consoles and on PCs, and most computer games these days have a video/visual component) I'm not seeing any replacement terms for nonvideo computer games (like most MUDs, text adventures, and games written for teletypes).

"A clip from the sound composition Sounding the Radical Catalog, created from our recording sessions with Catalogers at Work, listen to the entire composition here" https://soundcloud.com/user-490938359/sounding-the-radical-catalog

via @belantara on the bird site

I'm one of the radical catalogers! ✊🏻 ⌨️ 🏳️‍🌈

#lcsh #critcat #critlib

The link is up https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/cpsoed/ptcp-221216.pdf

#LCSH #CritCat #EnslavedPersons

Big #LCSH / #CritCat news:

Enslaved persons

Special list 2212a consisted of 55 proposals to revise the heading Slaves to Enslaved persons as well as other headings that used the wording Slaves. This is the culmination of a project started in 2022. The meeting thanks the African-American SACO Funnel for their careful, thorough research and hard work to make these proposals.

No link yet, will be December 2022 on here http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/cpsoed/cpsoeditorial.html #EnslavedPersons

This week's Links includes:

- great piece by Alissa McCulloch on Australian #cataloguing and #LCSH (intentional 'u')

- #ChatGPT and #authroship and #copyright

-some thoughts on who should be responsible for #researchintegrity

-Always more things happening with transformative agreements

-Results from a survey of archives administrators

And some other things (I've forgotten, tbh)

https://tinyletter.com/eleanorcolla/letters/little-library-ish-links-february-03

(Tentatively) Welcome to the @librarycongress #PoliceBrutality protests!

150
Police brutality protests [May Subd Geog] [sp2022007816]
(C)
450
UF Anti-police brutality protests
 
450
UF Anti-police violence protests
 
450
UF Brutality protests, Police
 
450
UF Police violence protests
 
450
UF Protests against police brutality
 
450
UF Violence protests, Police
 
550
BT Protest movements

#LCSH https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2301.html #cataloging #CritCat #ftp

150
Infrastructure (Economics) in comics [Not Subd Geog] [sp2022007830]
(C)
550
BT Comic books, strips, etc.
 
680
Here are entered works on the representation of economic infrastructure in comics.

Tenative #LCSH list for January 2023 https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2301.html Knowing the warrant would ruin it.

#NarrowAndSpecific #Cataloging

Last #ZineCataloging toot of the day: new-to-me #LCSH

No (The English word)

from I Have a Policy Against Hugs: Some Ways to Say No by Laura-Marie River Victor Peace

#No #Zines #ZineLibraries #LauraMarie #Boundaries #Consent

Last #ZineCataloging toot of the day: new-to-me #LCSH

No (The English word)

from I Have a Policy Against Hugs: Some Ways to Say No by Laura-Marie River Victor Peace

#No #Zines #ZineLibraries #LauraMarie #Boundaries #Consent

Last #ZineCataloging toot of the day: new-to-me #LCSH

No (The English word)

from I Have a Policy Against Hugs: Some Ways to Say No by Laura-Marie River Victor Peace

#No #Zines #ZineLibraries #LauraMarie #Boundaries #Consent

https://archive.org/details/2022-12-bzl-newsletter 📰

This month at the Barnard Zine Library, we share zine library news, new-to-us Library of Congress subject headings, and zines selected for a collaboration with the Movement Lab. Nayla Delgado BC '24 reviews An Alternative Owner's Manual for Alexa, and everyone on the zine library staff tells what's bringing them joy this month. #LCSH #zines #zineLibraries

@swib some of the concerns/issues:

- Labels, data models and concepts
- Standards rooted in colonial practices
- Problematic or incorrect data relationships
- Data governance
- Provenance

An example: Library of Congress Subject Headings #LCSH #LOD #GLAM

#swib22

They are also tentatively establishing #Genderqueer fiction (as opposed to Gender minority fiction???)

#LCSH #CritCat

Also on the #LCSH tentative list

Sex role in bullfights

Why yes, I also want to know the warrant. https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2212.html #cataloging #bullfights #matadoras

Also on the #LCSH tentative list

Sex role in bullfights

Why yes, I also want to know the warrant. https://classweb.org/tentative-subjects/2212.html #cataloging #bullfights #matadoras