Violet Fox 🦊Mar 18
Terrific new article about how the idea of "neutrality" has been used for decades to deny the approval of #LCSH relating to marginalized people. Great description of how subject headings are created and how inordinate scrutiny is given to certain proposals in order to appear "unbiased." #critcat 📚

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zn7vfqfcnctwh67uhdxtqkq2/post/3mhdrd22dxk2d

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Violet Fox 🦊May 11, 2025
A new memorandum from the Dept of Defense listing specific subject headings to be used within military libraries to flag books with "divisive content." #LCSH #critcat 📚 media.defense.gov/2025/May/09/...

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Anne KlammtMay 9, 2025
@acdha
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
Jez 🍞🌹Apr 7, 2025
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".
Ed BilodeauMar 31, 2025

We've posted an advisory for our user community on the recent LCSH changes, how they impact our discovery system, and what we are doing to mitigate the problem #Carleton #libraries #lcsh #metadata

https://library.carleton.ca/library-news/advisory-potential-changes-subject-headings-omni-records

Advisory: Potential Changes to Subject Headings in Omni Records | MacOdrum Library

OverviewOmni records employ automated descriptive subject headings that are managed by the United States Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has recently announced changes to established subject headings that do not follow the established consultation process from the library community and do not follow the normal protocols for changing geographic names.

William DentonMar 3, 2025

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

Ed BilodeauFeb 20, 2025

LCSH has long had its problematic terms, and librarians have been spending years trying to get these problems addressed, but there was always process, consultation, concensus, etc, etc, all to say “reasons” that held up and prevented changes from happened. This week we've learned that, when appropriately motivated, the Library of Congress can in fact make and push through changes like that! *snaps fingers*

#libraries #academia #lcsh #metadata

Ed BilodeauFeb 18, 2025
So the Clarivate news turned out to not be the biggest news to hit my inbox today…. #academia #libraries #lcsh
Show threadKaren Keiller 🥌 📚Feb 18, 2025
@wdenton No. just say no, #LAC #libraryandarchivescanada #LCSH
Anne DeschaineFeb 18, 2025

Library catalogers and others concerned with the impact of words and complicity, see the latest LCSH change proposals...

https://cosocial.ca/@wdenton/114026098768758164

On the list: Gulf of Mexico (and a bunch of related), Mount Denali.

SEND COMMENTS. WORDS MATTER.

EDIT: Comment period is over

#libraries #librarians #cataloging #LCSH

William Denton (@[email protected])

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

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