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The winner of the Lower East Side Librarian LCSH of the Week for Week 5, February 3, 2010 is...

As I said last time, I'm getting a little sick of this exercise, so I'm going to try an abbreviated version. I'll just pick one LCSH from each weekly list and dub it the Lower East Side Librarian LCSH of the Week. Week 4 of 2010's winner is...

How did I not know that WASPS (PERSONS) was a Library of Congress subject heading. (Or did I? My mind is a sieve sometimes.) The record indicates that the heading was established (or last modified?) in 1986.

I have to admit I'm getting a little sick of this game and also I'm becoming increasingly demoralized about the efficacy of subject headings, even if we could convince the Library of Congress to fucking acknowledge BUTCHES and FEMMES, the FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT, SEX WORKERS, FREEGANISM, and, for the love of dog, FOLKSONOMY. (See a larger list of Sandy Berman's suggestions if you don't already get the idea.)

But for some reason I can't let go, so here I give you a three for one on LCSH Watch!

Week 1, January 6, 2010, Week 2, January 13, 2010, and Week 3, January 20, 2010:

Anti-copyright movement
Condom use—Religious aspects
Corn mummies

Cultural intelligence
D.C. hand dance
Enemies

Feminism on television
Handball players
Happy hours
Jewish transgender people
Lesbian photographers
Mind and body in motion pictures
Orphan works (Copyright)
Pink in art
Stupidity in art
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Work life balance

Week 51, December 23, 2009 on LCSH Watch:

• Beards (Islamic law)
• Cell phone etiquette
• Cooperating teachers
• Ducks—Counting
• Female juvenile delinquents in literature
• Gay political refugees
• Marijuana in motion pictures
• Webisodes
• Weiss beer
• Wheat beer
  

Week 50 on LCSH Watch 2009:

• Animated films
• Door-to-door selling
• Climate change mitigation
• Coffee cozies

• Costermongers

• Eleven Thousand Virgins (Legendary saints)
• Internet in evangelistic work
• Multicultural services librarians
• Muslim gay men
• Muslim gays

• Necromunda (Imaginary place)
• Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-
• Operation Noble Eagle, 2001-
• Power line bird strikes

• Sacred space
• Subject headings
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

I just cataloged a zine to which I wish I could have assigned the subject headings FEMME IDENTITY and FEMMES.

Femmes Unite contains short essays by male, female, and genderqueer (another heading I'd like to see!) femmes on topics including but not limited to...

LCSH Watch: Week 49, December 9, 2009:

• Banks and banking—Contracting out
• Crime in music
• Music and crime
• Frau Antje (Advertising character)

• H1N1 influenza
• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary organization)
• Legislators' pets
• Metadata harvesting

• Network‑centric operations (Military science)
• Semiotics and motion pictures

LCSH Watch: Week 48, December 2, 2009. For a visual supplement, check out Tricia Burmeister's post.

• Advertising—Cheese

• Androids in literature
• Cellular telephones and teenagers
• Eighteenth century in motion pictures
• Moviemaking in motion pictures
• Emotions—Anthropological aspects
• Executive power
• Judicial power
• Legislative power

• Fragility (Psychology)

• Glees, catches, rounds, etc.

• Male white collar workers
• Nonrenewable natural resources
• Dysfunctional families
• Smurfs (Fictitious characters)

Among Sandy Berman's latest recommendations to the Library of Congress Subject Authority Cooperative is CYBERCHONDRIA.