Critcatenate: #critcat in September 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 September 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 2406 were approved in June 2024).

New LC headings of note on list 2406:

  • new LCSH: Collective trauma
  • new LCSH: Gender identity in video games
  • new LCSH: Generational trauma
  • new LCSH: Pregnant men 

Many new LCSH relating to Palestine and Israel, including:

  • new LCSH: Blockade–Gaza Strip
  • new LCSH: Gaza Strip–History–Blockade, 2007- 
  • new LCSH: Gaza Strip–History–Bombardment, 2023- 
  • new LCSH: Israel–History–Bombardment, 2001- 
  • new LCSH: Israel-Hamas War, 2023-
  • new LCSH: October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023
  • new LCSH: Palestinian Arab diaspora

Multiple revisions relating to paralysis:

  • revised LCSH: from Hemiplegics to People with hemiplegia
  • revised LCSH: from Paralytics to People with paralysis
  • revised LCSH: from Paraplegics to People with paraplegia
  • revised LCSH: from Quadriplegics to People with quadriplegia

Take note of special list 2406a, which has many revisions relating to race, including revising Racially mixed people to Multiracial people and revising Miscegenation to Miscegenation (Racist theory). Congratulations and thank you to the African American SACO Funnel for this work!

Upcoming:

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

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