Critcatenate: #critcat in August 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 August 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 2206 were approved in June 2022).

New LCSH of note on list 2206:

  • new heading: Climate justice
  • new heading: March Massacre, Azerbaijan, 1918
  • revised heading: from Primitive societies to Prehistoric peoples [and multiple related changes; shoutout to Jamie Carlstone at Northwestern for making these happen!]
  • new heading: Primitive man stereotype
  • revised heading: from Primitive societies in literature to Primitive man stereotype in literature
  • new heading: White privilege (Social structure) [Shoutout to Israel Yáñez for making this happen! Find more info about the history of this heading.]

Upcoming:

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

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