lower east side librarian

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

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)

At first I was very excited to know about the SACO Summary of Decisions from the Weekly Editorial Meeting postings (Thanks, Bill), but now I'm irritated that they don't keep up with the Weekly Headings lists. The week 48 listings have been posted, but the rationale is at least two weeks behind. Do I let my commentary lag as well, or not? I say not, so…

This week 47, November 25, 2009 on LCSH Watch:

• American Dream—Religious aspects
• Brooklyn Queens Expressway (New York, N.Y.)
• Cappuccino
• Cookery (Espresso)
• Espresso
• Islamic sects
• Latte art

• Punk rock music—Philosophy and aesthetics
• Yoda (Fictitious character : Lucas)

Dear Gay Cataloging Mafia and other concerned parties:

The Lezbrian Yahoo! group is a talkin' about subject headings. Brenda J. Marston wonders why if "Bears (Gay culture)" has been adopted as a Library of Congress Subject Heading, why not "Butch," "Femme (Lesbian culture)," and "Butch and femme." Me, too!

I might argue for "Femme (Queer culture)" though, since the femmes whose zines I catalog use Queer almost exclusively over Lesbian. Brenda tells me that Cornell has a 653 for "Butch and femme (Sexual orientation)."

LCSH Week 46, November 18, 2009
This week on LCSH Watch:

• Bluejoint reedgrass

• Cod Wars, Iceland, 1958-1976
• Cookery (Champagne)
• Denial of service attacks
• Fragmented industries
• Great snipe

• Lesser white fronted goose

• Sewage—Purification—Selenium removal
• Team Orientation and Behavior Inventory
• Wine coolers

LCSH Week 45, November 11, 2009

This week on LCSH Watch:

• Biopiracy
• Body image in girls
• Bowling for girls

• Cookery (Sourdough)
• Sourdough bread
• Corn—Effect of global warming on
• Global warming
• Ferruginous duck

• Gender identity in the Bible
• Junior high school girls
• Subject headings

• Prenuptial agreements
• Captive penguins

• Deforestation
• Employment practices liability insurance
• Horsemen and horsewomen

• Male athletes
• Medicare beneficiaries, White
• Mouth music

• Non monogamous relationships in literature
• Post-abortion syndrome
• Theatrical wigs
• Trust receipts
• Wetland mitigation banking
• Women in the theater