Critcatenate: #critcat in July 2022

Critcatenate is an effort to keep folks up to date on critcat efforts with a monthly roundup of news. Critcat is short for critical cataloging, focusing on the ethical implications of library metadata, cataloging, and classification standards, practice, and infrastructure.

#critcat in July 2022:

I’m doing a brief review of the new LCSH lists for headings that might be of interest to readers of Critcatenate. FYI, LCSH list numbers consist of a two-digit number for the year and a two-digit number for the month the headings were approved (so, for example, headings on list 2205 were approved in May 2022).

New LCSH of note on list 2205:

  • revision of Brothers and sisters to Siblings
  • new LCSH: Gender euphoria
  • new LCSH: Girls, Black
  • new LCSH: Indigenous Peoples’ Day 
  • new LCSH: Misinformation
  • revision of Negro Bill Canyon Wilderness (Utah) to Grandstaff Canyon Wilderness Study Area (Utah) 
  • new LCSH: Police abolition movement 
  • new LCSH: Slurs

Upcoming:

I couldn’t find anything that’s upcoming! Let me know what’s happening in August and beyond.

Please get in touch if I’ve missed anything relevant, I’d be happy to add it to next month’s report!

One Reply to “Critcatenate: #critcat in July 2022”

  1. Hi Violet, I submitted a post to the University of Kansas Department of History blog on the subject of collaborative critical cataloging. It should go live soon, just putting it on your radar!

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