Welcome to the Cataloging Lab! This is a place for anyone who cares about library cataloging to experiment with making our controlled vocabularies and classification better.
The Cataloging Lab was started to be a collaborative place to draft proposals for additions or revisions to LCSH. Learn more about the origin and impetus of the site in this Library Journal article. Over the years, it’s grown to host a number of crowdsourced lists as well. Some of the most popular lists are the list of statements on bias in library and archives description and the list of problem LCSH.
If you’d like to contribute to the Cataloging Lab, you are welcome to! To register for a new account, login, or reset your password, use the registration link.
Your ideas for other ways the Cataloging Lab could be a resource for the library metadata community are welcome! For questions or comments about the Cataloging Lab, please use this contact form.