Critcatenate: #critcat in December 2024

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

#critcat in December 2024:

I’m doing a brief review of the new LCSH lists for headings that might be of interest to readers of Critcatenate. LCSH list numbers consist of a two-digit number for the year and a two-digit number for the month the headings were approved (for example, headings on list 2408 were approved in August 2024).

New LC headings of note on list 2408:

  • revised LCSH: from COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-  to COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
  • new LCSH: Día de la Raza
  • new LCSH: Eating habits
  • revised LCSH: from Egúngún (Cult) to Egúngún [along with multiple other headings formerly qualified with the word “cult”]
  • new LCSH: Gender neutral parenting
  • new LCSH: Historically Black Greek letter societies
  • new LCSH: Israeli essays, with the scope note “Here are entered collections of essays originating in Israel in Hebrew or in several languages collectively. Such collections in Arabic are entered under Arabic essays–Israel; in Yiddish under Yiddish essays–Israel. Collections of such essays in other individual languages are entered under Israeli essays ([name of language]).”
  • New LCSH: Palestine question (To 1948) in literature
  • New LCSH: Seed banks
  • New LCSH: Social media and youth
  • New LCSH: Swifties (Music fans)

Please let me know if there’s anything else coming up or I’ve missed anything!