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Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists Week 26, Week 27, and Week 28: FILMS vs. MOTION PICTURES, SUBD GEOG vs. NOT, DANDIES and DANDYISM, and the dissing of balloon sculptors...brought to you by T (THE LETTER).

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists 24 and 25

My picks for LC's new subject headings from May 14-June 4. Highlights include CUTTING (SELF-MUTILATION) and EASTERN FILBERT BLIGHT suggested during the the Radical Reference LCSH Blog-a-Thon.

In trying to catalog the zine Reproductive Autonomy: Crossing the Species Border, I discovered that the Library of Congress does not have a subject heading for REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. MESH does, but LC doesn't.

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 18 (April 30, 2008) and List 19 (May 7, 2008)

PLURALISM is dead in favor of MULTICULTURALISM and other cross references. And FIRST WAVE FEMINISM gets acquainted with SUFFRAGE.

I'm trying to catalog the zine, "I'm fat. You're fat. We're Fat! A collaborative zine project." It's a fat power zine, but sadly there's no subject heading for that. I looked in the Library of Congress catalog to see how they treated similar themed content and came up with OBESITY, which I'd say misses the point for I'm Fat, especially given the name of the conference for which the zine was created, Fat is Contagious: Political Fat Queer Visibility and Action in the Age of the "Obesity Epidemic."

GLBT ALMS Conference 2008: Coming to Terms

Day One of the GLBT ALMS conference at the CUNY Grad Center. Coming to Terms: LGBTIQ Thesauri, Folksonomies, and Taxononomies with KR Roberto, Ellen Greenblatt, Michael Waldman, and Analisa Ornelas. And the same bad mannered know-it-all from the previous session.

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 17 (April 23, 2008)

My highlights from LCSH Weekly List 17. And since I haven't said it before except in a comment, here are some explanatory notes from the about page: "Changes to existing headings are indicated by an asterisk. (A) indicates proposals that were approved before the editorial meeting. (C) indicates proposals submitted by cooperating libraries."

This week's highlights include ice pops, singing cowboys, and towel folding. Messy sweet-toothed cowboys!

Day One of the GLBT ALMS conference at the CUNY Grad Center. (ALMS stands for Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections, btw.)

I arrived at the conference in time to attend my friend Emily Drabinski's panel on Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Just so's you know, I'm going to make a post for each workshop I attended, rather than one superlong post about the whole event.

LCSH Weekly Lists 15 and 16

My headings for the headings:
Every subject heading is loved by someone, From Sandy Berman's list, Funny ha ha, Funny strange, Getting it right, Getting it wrong, I'd like to add a few Related Terms to this one, and Wouldn't it be cool if these were all from one book?